Generating specificity in genome regulation through transcription factor sensitivity to chromatin

L Isbel, RS Grand, D Schübeler - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Cell type-specific gene expression relies on transcription factors (TFs) binding DNA
sequence motifs embedded in chromatin. Understanding how motifs are accessed in …

Regulatory SNPs: altered transcription factor binding sites implicated in complex traits and diseases

AO Degtyareva, EV Antontseva… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The vast majority of the genetic variants (mainly SNPs) associated with various human traits
and diseases map to a noncoding part of the genome and are enriched in its regulatory …

Wilds: A benchmark of in-the-wild distribution shifts

PW Koh, S Sagawa, H Marklund… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Distribution shifts—where the training distribution differs from the test distribution—can
substantially degrade the accuracy of machine learning (ML) systems deployed in the wild …

Readout of histone methylation by Trim24 locally restricts chromatin opening by p53

L Isbel, M Iskar, S Durdu, J Weiss, RS Grand… - Nature Structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The genomic binding sites of the transcription factor (TF) and tumor suppressor p53 are
unusually diverse with regard to their chromatin features, including histone modifications …

ZNF410 uniquely activates the NuRD component CHD4 to silence fetal hemoglobin expression

X Lan, R Ren, R Feng, LC Ly, Y Lan, Z Zhang… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Metazoan transcription factors typically regulate large numbers of genes. Here we identify
via a CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screen ZNF410, a pentadactyl DNA-binding protein that in …

Mechanisms governing target search and binding dynamics of hypoxia-inducible factors

Y Chen, C Cattoglio, GM Dailey, Q Zhu, R Tjian… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Transcription factors (TFs) are classically attributed a modular construction, containing well-
structured sequence-specific DNA-binding domains (DBDs) paired with disordered …

Clustered and diverse transcription factor binding underlies cell type specificity of enhancers for housekeeping genes

I Zhu, D Landsman - Genome Research, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
Housekeeping genes are considered to be regulated by common enhancers across different
tissues. Here we report that most of the commonly expressed mouse or human genes across …

Deciphering cell types by integrating scATAC-seq data with genome sequences

Y Zeng, M Luo, N Shangguan, P Shi, J Feng… - Nature Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
The single-cell assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (scATAC-seq)
technology provides insight into gene regulation and epigenetic heterogeneity at single-cell …

Domain-adaptive neural networks improve cross-species prediction of transcription factor binding

K Cochran, D Srivastava, A Shrikumar… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
The intrinsic DNA sequence preferences and cell type–specific cooperative partners of
transcription factors (TFs) are typically highly conserved. Hence, despite the rapid …

Computational prediction and characterization of cell-type-specific and shared binding sites

Q Zhang, P Teng, S Wang, Y He, Z Cui, Z Guo… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Cell-type-specific gene expression is maintained in large part by transcription
factors (TFs) selectively binding to distinct sets of sites in different cell types. Recent …