The 4D nucleome project

J Dekker, AS Belmont, M Guttman, VO Leshyk, JT Lis… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The 4D Nucleome Network aims to develop and apply approaches to map the
structure and dynamics of the human and mouse genomes in space and time with the goal …

The three-dimensional organization of mammalian genomes

M Yu, B Ren - Annual review of cell and developmental biology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Animal development depends on not only the linear genome sequence that embeds millions
of cis-regulatory elements, but also the three-dimensional (3D) chromatin architecture that …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale 3D genome rewiring during mouse neural development

B Bonev, NM Cohen, Q Szabo, L Fritsch… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Chromosome conformation capture technologies have revealed important insights into
genome folding. Yet, how spatial genome architecture is related to gene expression and cell …

[HTML][HTML] YY1 is a structural regulator of enhancer-promoter loops

AS Weintraub, CH Li, AV Zamudio, AA Sigova… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
There is considerable evidence that chromosome structure plays important roles in gene
control, but we have limited understanding of the proteins that contribute to structural …

[HTML][HTML] Cohesin loss eliminates all loop domains

SSP Rao, SC Huang, BG St Hilaire, JM Engreitz… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The human genome folds to create thousands of intervals, called" contact domains," that
exhibit enhanced contact frequency within themselves." Loop domains" form because of …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient targeted nuclease strategy for high-resolution mapping of DNA binding sites

PJ Skene, S Henikoff - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
We describe Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease (CUT&RUN), a
chromatin profiling strategy in which antibody-targeted controlled cleavage by micrococcal …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted degradation of CTCF decouples local insulation of chromosome domains from genomic compartmentalization

EP Nora, A Goloborodko, AL Valton, JH Gibcus… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The molecular mechanisms underlying folding of mammalian chromosomes remain poorly
understood. The transcription factor CTCF is a candidate regulator of chromosomal …

[HTML][HTML] 3D chromatin architecture of large plant genomes determined by local A/B compartments

P Dong, X Tu, PY Chu, P Lü, N Zhu, D Grierson, B Du… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
The spatial organization of the genome plays an important role in the regulation of gene
expression. However, the core structural features of animal genomes, such as topologically …

Fast, scalable prediction of deleterious noncoding variants from functional and population genomic data

YF Huang, B Gulko, A Siepel - Nature genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Many genetic variants that influence phenotypes of interest are located outside of protein-
coding genes, yet existing methods for identifying such variants have poor predictive power …

[HTML][HTML] CTCF-mediated enhancer-promoter interaction is a critical regulator of cell-to-cell variation of gene expression

G Ren, W Jin, K Cui, J Rodrigez, G Hu, Z Zhang… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Recent studies indicate that even a homogeneous population of cells display heterogeneity
in gene expression and response to environmental stimuli. Although promoter structure …