3D enhancer-promoter interactions and multi-connected hubs: Organizational principles and functional roles

CM Uyehara, E Apostolou - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The spatiotemporal control of gene expression is dependent on the activity of cis-acting
regulatory sequences, called enhancers, which regulate target genes over variable genomic …

Long-range enhancer–promoter contacts in gene expression control

S Schoenfelder, P Fraser - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Spatiotemporal gene expression programmes are orchestrated by transcriptional
enhancers, which are key regulatory DNA elements that engage in physical contacts with …

Molecular architecture of enhancer–promoter interaction

K Hamamoto, T Fukaya - Current opinion in cell biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Temporal and spatial specificity of gene expression is highly regulated through a rich milieu
of regulatory DNAs embedded in the genome. Enhancers represent a major class of …

Long distance relationships: enhancer–promoter communication and dynamic gene transcription

J Marsman, JA Horsfield - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2012 - Elsevier
The three-dimensional regulation of gene transcription involves loop formation between
enhancer and promoter elements, controlling spatiotemporal gene expression in …

The hierarchy of transcriptional activation: from enhancer to promoter

D Vernimmen, WA Bickmore - Trends in Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Regulatory elements (enhancers) that are remote from promoters play a critical role in the
spatial, temporal, and physiological control of gene expression. Studies on specific loci …

Developmental enhancers and chromosome topology

EEM Furlong, M Levine - Science, 2018 - science.org
Developmental enhancers mediate on/off patterns of gene expression in specific cell types
at particular stages during metazoan embryogenesis. They typically integrate multiple …

Enhancers and chromatin structures: regulatory hubs in gene expression and diseases

Z Hu, WW Tee - Bioscience reports, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Gene expression requires successful communication between enhancer and promoter
regions, whose activities are regulated by a variety of factors and associated with distinct …

Enhancer selectivity in space and time: from enhancer–promoter interactions to promoter activation

JH Yang, AS Hansen - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
The primary regulators of metazoan gene expression are enhancers, originally functionally
defined as DNA sequences that can activate transcription at promoters in an orientation …

Enhancer function: mechanistic and genome-wide insights come together

JL Plank, A Dean - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
Enhancers establish spatial or temporal patterns of gene expression that are critical for
development, yet our understanding of how these DNA cis-regulatory elements function from …

Enhancer logic and mechanics in development and disease

R Rickels, A Shilatifard - Trends in cell biology, 2018 - cell.com
Enhancers are distally located genomic cis-regulatory elements that integrate
spatiotemporal cues to coordinate gene expression in a tissue-specific manner during …