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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Enhancer–promoter specificity in gene transcription: molecular mechanisms and disease associations

MJ Friedman, T Wagner, H Lee… - … & Molecular Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Although often located at a distance from their target gene promoters, enhancers are the
primary genomic determinants of temporal and spatial transcriptional specificity in …

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 …

Regulatory landscaping: how enhancer-promoter communication is sculpted in 3D

MI Robson, AR Ringel, S Mundlos - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
During embryogenesis, precise gene transcription in space and time requires that distal
enhancers and promoters communicate by physical proximity within gene regulatory …

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 …