The epigenetic basis of cellular heterogeneity

B Carter, K Zhao - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell sequencing-based methods for profiling gene transcript levels have revealed
substantial heterogeneity in expression levels among morphologically indistinguishable …

Understanding nucleosome dynamics and their links to gene expression and DNA replication

WKM Lai, BF Pugh - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Advances in genomics technology have provided the means to probe myriad chromatin
interactions at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. This has led to a profound …

Ageing-associated changes in transcriptional elongation influence longevity

C Debès, A Papadakis, S Grönke, Ö Karalay, LS Tain… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Physiological homeostasis becomes compromised during ageing, as a result of impairment
of cellular processes, including transcription and RNA splicing,,–. However, the molecular …

Ultrastructural details of mammalian chromosome architecture

N Krietenstein, S Abraham, SV Venev, N Abdennur… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Over the past decade, 3C-related methods have provided remarkable insights into
chromosome folding in vivo. To overcome the limited resolution of prior studies, we extend a …

The interaction landscape between transcription factors and the nucleosome

F Zhu, L Farnung, E Kaasinen, B Sahu, Y Yin, B Wei… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Nucleosomes cover most of the genome and are thought to be displaced by transcription
factors in regions that direct gene expression. However, the modes of interaction between …

Mapping nucleosome resolution chromosome folding in yeast by micro-C

THS Hsieh, A Weiner, B Lajoie, J Dekker, N Friedman… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
We describe a Hi-C-based method, Micro-C, in which micrococcal nuclease is used instead
of restriction enzymes to fragment chromatin, enabling nucleosome resolution chromosome …

High-resolution chromatin dynamics during a yeast stress response

A Weiner, THS Hsieh, A Appleboim, HV Chen, A Rahat… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Covalent histone modifications are highly conserved and play multiple roles in eukaryotic
transcription regulation. Here, we mapped 26 histone modifications genome-wide in …

Genome-wide kinetics of DNA excision repair in relation to chromatin state and mutagenesis

S Adar, J Hu, JD Lieb, A Sancar - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
We recently developed a high-resolution genome-wide assay for mapping DNA excision
repair named eXcision Repair-sequencing (XR-seq) and have now used XR-seq to …

Metabolic inputs into the epigenome

U Sharma, OJ Rando - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
A number of molecular pathways play key roles in transmitting information in addition to the
genomic sequence—epigenetic information—from one generation to the next. However, so …

Opposing chromatin remodelers control transcription initiation frequency and start site selection

S Kubik, MJ Bruzzone, D Challal, R Dreos… - Nature structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
Precise nucleosome organization at eukaryotic promoters is thought to be generated by
multiple chromatin remodeler (CR) enzymes and to affect transcription initiation. Using an …