CTCF: an architectural protein bridging genome topology and function

CT Ong, VG Corces - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
The eukaryotic genome is organized in the three-dimensional nuclear space in a specific
manner that is both a cause and a consequence of its function. This organization is partly …

[PDF][PDF] The 3D genome in transcriptional regulation and pluripotency

DU Gorkin, D Leung, B Ren - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
It can be convenient to think of the genome as simply a string of nucleotides, the linear order
of which encodes an organism's genetic blueprint. However, the genome does not exist as a …

[PDF][PDF] Control of cell identity genes occurs in insulated neighborhoods in mammalian chromosomes

JM Dowen, ZP Fan, D Hnisz, G Ren, BJ Abraham… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The pluripotent state of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) is produced by active transcription of
genes that control cell identity and repression of genes encoding lineage-specifying …

Human colorectal cancer-specific CCAT1-L lncRNA regulates long-range chromatin interactions at the MYC locus

JF Xiang, QF Yin, T Chen, Y Zhang, XO Zhang, Z Wu… - Cell research, 2014 - nature.com
The human 8q24 gene desert contains multiple enhancers that form tissue-specific long-
range chromatin loops with the MYC oncogene, but how chromatin looping at the MYC locus …

Functional and topological characteristics of mammalian regulatory domains

O Symmons, VV Uslu, T Tsujimura, S Ruf… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Long-range regulatory interactions play an important role in shaping gene-expression
programs. However, the genomic features that organize these activities are still poorly …

Genome-wide map of regulatory interactions in the human genome

N Heidari, DH Phanstiel, C He, F Grubert… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Increasing evidence suggests that interactions between regulatory genomic elements play
an important role in regulating gene expression. We generated a genome-wide interaction …

Insulator function and topological domain border strength scale with architectural protein occupancy

K Van Bortle, MH Nichols, L Li, CT Ong, N Takenaka… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Chromosome conformation capture studies suggest that eukaryotic genomes
are organized into structures called topologically associating domains. The borders of these …

Epigenetic regulation of pluripotency and differentiation

MJ Boland, KL Nazor, JF Loring - Circulation research, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
The precise, temporal order of gene expression during development is critical to ensure
proper lineage commitment, cell fate determination, and ultimately, organogenesis …

Global view of enhancer–promoter interactome in human cells

B He, C Chen, L Teng, K Tan - Proceedings of the National …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Enhancer mapping has been greatly facilitated by various genomic marks associated with it.
However, little is available in our toolbox to link enhancers with their target promoters …

NOTCH1–RBPJ complexes drive target gene expression through dynamic interactions with superenhancers

H Wang, C Zang, L Taing, KL Arnett… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The main oncogenic driver in T-lymphoblastic leukemia is NOTCH1, which activates genes
by forming chromatin-associated Notch transcription complexes. Gamma-secretase-inhibitor …