Epigenetics as a mediator of plasticity in cancer

AP Feinberg, A Levchenko - Science, 2023 - science.org
The concept of an epigenetic landscape describing potential cellular fates arising from
pluripotent cells, first advanced by Conrad Waddington, has evolved in light of experiments …

Mechanisms of chromosome folding and nuclear organization: their interplay and open questions

L Mirny, J Dekker - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2022 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Microscopy and genomic approaches provide detailed descriptions of the three-dimensional
folding of chromosomes and nuclear organization. The fundamental question is how activity …

Diverse silent chromatin states modulate genome compartmentalization and loop extrusion barriers

G Spracklin, N Abdennur, M Imakaev… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The relationships between chromosomal compartmentalization, chromatin state and function
are poorly understood. Here by profiling long-range contact frequencies in HCT116 colon …

Long-range phasing of dynamic, tissue-specific and allele-specific regulatory elements

S Battaglia, K Dong, J Wu, Z Chen, FJ Najm, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenomic maps identify gene regulatory elements by their chromatin state. However,
prevailing short-read sequencing methods cannot effectively distinguish alleles, evaluate …

The co-evolution of the genome and epigenome in colorectal cancer

T Heide, J Househam, GD Cresswell, I Spiteri, C Lynn… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal malignancies are a leading cause of cancer-related death and have undergone
extensive genomic study,. However, DNA mutations alone do not fully explain malignant …

dcHiC detects differential compartments across multiple Hi-C datasets

A Chakraborty, JG Wang, F Ay - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The compartmental organization of mammalian genomes and its changes play important
roles in distinct biological processes. Here, we introduce dcHiC, which utilizes a multivariate …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular feature of macrophages in tumor immune microenvironment of glioma patients

H Zhang, YB Luo, W Wu, L Zhang, Z Wang… - Computational and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Gliomas are one of the most common types of primary tumors in central nervous
system. Previous studies have found that macrophages actively participate in tumor growth …

An atlas of lamina-associated chromatin across twelve human cell types reveals an intermediate chromatin subtype

PP Shah, KC Keough, K Gjoni, GT Santini, RJ Abdill… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Association of chromatin with lamin proteins at the nuclear periphery has
emerged as a potential mechanism to coordinate cell type-specific gene expression and …

Systematic inference and comparison of multi-scale chromatin sub-compartments connects spatial organization to cell phenotypes

Y Liu, L Nanni, S Sungalee, M Zufferey… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromatin compartmentalization reflects biological activity. However, inference of chromatin
sub-compartments and compartment domains from chromosome conformation capture (Hi …

[HTML][HTML] DNA hypomethylation silences anti-tumor immune genes in early prostate cancer and CTCs

H Guo, JA Vuille, BS Wittner, EM Lachtara, Y Hou… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer is characterized by hypomethylation-associated silencing of large chromatin
domains, whose contribution to tumorigenesis is uncertain. Through high-resolution genome …