Nonlinear control of transcription through enhancer–promoter interactions

J Zuin, G Roth, Y Zhan, J Cramard, J Redolfi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chromosome structure in mammals is thought to regulate transcription by modulating three-
dimensional interactions between enhancers and promoters, notably through CTCF …

Enhancer–promoter interactions can bypass CTCF-mediated boundaries and contribute to phenotypic robustness

S Chakraborty, N Kopitchinski, Z Zuo, A Eraso… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How enhancers activate their distal target promoters remains incompletely understood. Here
we dissect how CTCF-mediated loops facilitate and restrict such regulatory interactions …

Genome organization controls transcriptional dynamics during development

PJ Batut, XY Bing, Z Sisco, J Raimundo, M Levo… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Past studies offer contradictory claims for the role of genome organization in the regulation
of gene activity. Here, we show through high-resolution chromosome conformation analysis …

Enhancer–promoter interactions and transcription are largely maintained upon acute loss of CTCF, cohesin, WAPL or YY1

THS Hsieh, C Cattoglio, E Slobodyanyuk, AS Hansen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
It remains unclear why acute depletion of CTCF (CCCTC-binding factor) and cohesin only
marginally affects expression of most genes despite substantially perturbing three …

Function and evolution of the loop extrusion machinery in animals

E Kabirova, A Nurislamov, A Shadskiy… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes are essential proteins found in
genomes of all cellular organisms. Essential functions of these proteins, such as mitotic …

Establishing and maintaining Hox profiles during spinal cord development

A Miller, JS Dasen - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
The chromosomally-arrayed Hox gene family plays central roles in embryonic patterning
and the specification of cell identities throughout the animal kingdom. In vertebrates, the …

Boundary stacking interactions enable cross-TAD enhancer–promoter communication during limb development

TC Hung, DM Kingsley, AN Boettiger - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Although promoters and their enhancers are frequently contained within a topologically
associating domain (TAD), some developmentally important genes have their promoter and …

Dynamic network-guided CRISPRi screen identifies CTCF-loop-constrained nonlinear enhancer gene regulatory activity during cell state transitions

R Luo, J Yan, JW Oh, W Xi, D Shigaki, W Wong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Comprehensive enhancer discovery is challenging because most enhancers, especially
those contributing to complex diseases, have weak effects on gene expression. Our gene …

Enhancer-promoter interactions and transcription are maintained upon acute loss of CTCF, cohesin, WAPL, and YY1

THS Hsieh, C Cattoglio, E Slobodyanyuk, AS Hansen… - Biorxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
It remains unclear why acute depletion of CTCF and cohesin only marginally affects
expression of most genes despite substantially perturbing 3D genome folding at the level of …

Enhancer–promoter interactions can form independently of genomic distance and be functional across TAD boundaries

D Balasubramanian, P Borges Pinto… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Topologically Associating Domains (TADs) have been suggested to facilitate and
constrain enhancer–promoter interactions. However, the role of TAD boundaries in …