Mechanisms of enhancer action: the known and the unknown

A Panigrahi, BW O'Malley - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Differential gene expression mechanisms ensure cellular differentiation and plasticity to
shape ontogenetic and phylogenetic diversity of cell types. A key regulator of differential …

Ever-changing landscapes: transcriptional enhancers in development and evolution

HK Long, SL Prescott, J Wysocka - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
A class of cis-regulatory elements, called enhancers, play a central role in orchestrating
spatiotemporally precise gene-expression programs during development. Consequently …

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 …

Transcriptional regulation by (super) enhancers: from discovery to mechanisms

F Grosveld, J van Staalduinen… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Accurate control of gene expression in the right cell at the right moment is of fundamental
importance to animal development and homeostasis. At the heart of gene regulation lie the …

Transcriptional enhancers: from properties to genome-wide predictions

D Shlyueva, G Stampfel, A Stark - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Cellular development, morphology and function are governed by precise patterns of gene
expression. These are established by the coordinated action of genomic regulatory …

[HTML][HTML] Functional and mechanistic diversity of distal transcription enhancers

M Bulger, M Groudine - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Biological differences among metazoans and between cell types in a given organism arise
in large part due to differences in gene expression patterns. Gene-distal enhancers are key …

Enhancers as non-coding RNA transcription units: recent insights and future perspectives

W Li, D Notani, MG Rosenfeld - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Networks of regulatory enhancers dictate distinct cell identities and cellular responses to
diverse signals by instructing precise spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression. However …

Evaluating enhancer function and transcription

A Field, K Adelman - Annual review of biochemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Cell-type-and condition-specific profiles of gene expression require coordination between
protein-coding gene promoters and cis-regulatory sequences called enhancers. Enhancers …

Enhancer and super‐enhancer: Positive regulators in gene transcription

Y Peng, Y Zhang - Animal models and experimental medicine, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancer is a positive regulator for spatiotemporal development in eukaryotes. As a cluster,
super‐enhancer is closely related to cell identity‐and fate‐determined processes. Both of …

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 …