[HTML][HTML] TGFβ promotes widespread enhancer chromatin opening and operates on genomic regulatory domains

JA Guerrero-Martínez, M Ceballos-Chávez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Transforming Growth Factor-β (TGFβ) signaling pathway controls transcription
by regulating enhancer activity. How TGFβ-regulated enhancers are selected and what …

Active enhancers strengthen insulation by RNA-mediated CTCF binding at chromatin domain boundaries

Z Islam, B Saravanan, K Walavalkar, U Farooq… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
Vertebrate genomes are partitioned into chromatin domains or topologically associating
domains (TADs), which are typically bound by head-to-head pairs of CTCF binding sites …

A CRISPR-Cas9 screen identifies essential CTCF anchor sites for estrogen receptor-driven breast cancer cell proliferation

G Korkmaz, Z Manber, R Lopes, S Prekovic… - Nucleic Acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Estrogen receptor α (ERα) is an enhancer activating transcription factor, a key driver of
breast cancer and a main target for cancer therapy. ERα-mediated gene regulation requires …

Chromatin remodeling effects on enhancer activity

E García-González, M Escamilla-Del-Arenal… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
During organism development, a diversity of cell types emerges with disparate, yet stable
profiles of gene expression with distinctive cellular functions. In addition to gene promoters …

Lineage specific transcription factors and epigenetic regulators mediate TGFβ-dependent enhancer activation

R Fueyo, S Iacobucci, S Pappa, C Estarás… - Nucleic Acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
During neurogenesis, dynamic developmental cues, transcription factors and histone
modifying enzymes regulate the gene expression programs by modulating the activity of …

Systematic dissection of transcriptional regulatory networks by genome-scale and single-cell CRISPR screens

R Lopes, K Sprouffske, C Sheng, ECH Uijttewaal… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Millions of putative transcriptional regulatory elements (TREs) have been cataloged in the
human genome, yet their functional relevance in specific pathophysiological settings …

Genome organization and long-range regulation of gene expression by enhancers

A Smallwood, B Ren - Current opinion in cell biology, 2013 - Elsevier
It is now well accepted that cell-type specific gene regulation is under the purview of
enhancers. Great strides have been made recently to characterize and identify enhancers …

Transcriptional enhancers: from prediction to functional assessment on a genome-wide scale

IC Tobias, LE Abatti, SD Moorthy, S Mullany, T Taylor… - …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Enhancers are cis-regulatory sequences located distally to target genes. These sequences
consolidate developmental and environmental cues to coordinate gene expression in a …

[HTML][HTML] Coupled single-cell CRISPR screening and epigenomic profiling reveals causal gene regulatory networks

AJ Rubin, KR Parker, AT Satpathy, Y Qi, B Wu, AJ Ong… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Here, we present Perturb-ATAC, a method that combines multiplexed CRISPR interference
or knockout with genome-wide chromatin accessibility profiling in single cells based on the …

Dynamic enhancer function in the chromatin context

I Goldstein, GL Hager - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancers serve as critical regulatory elements in higher eukaryotic cells. The
characterization of enhancer function has evolved primarily from genome‐wide …