[HTML][HTML] Insulators and domains of gene expression

T Ali, R Renkawitz, M Bartkuhn - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2016 - Elsevier
The genomic organization into active and inactive chromatin domains imposes specific
requirements for having domain boundaries to prohibit interference between the opposing …

Mechanisms of Interaction between Enhancers and Promoters in Three Drosophila Model Systems

O Kyrchanova, V Sokolov, P Georgiev - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In higher eukaryotes, the regulation of developmental gene expression is determined by
enhancers, which are often located at a large distance from the promoters they regulate …

[HTML][HTML] deepTools2: a next generation web server for deep-sequencing data analysis

F Ramírez, DP Ryan, B Grüning, V Bhardwaj… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We present an update to our Galaxy-based web server for processing and visualizing
deeply sequenced data. Its core tool set, deepTools, allows users to perform complete …

High-resolution TADs reveal DNA sequences underlying genome organization in flies

F Ramírez, V Bhardwaj, L Arrigoni, KC Lam… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite an abundance of new studies about topologically associating domains (TADs), the
role of genetic information in TAD formation is still not fully understood. Here we use our …

ZNF143 provides sequence specificity to secure chromatin interactions at gene promoters

SD Bailey, X Zhang, K Desai, M Aid, O Corradin… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Chromatin interactions connect distal regulatory elements to target gene promoters guiding
stimulus-and lineage-specific transcription. Few factors securing chromatin interactions have …

Sub-kb Hi-C in D. melanogaster reveals conserved characteristics of TADs between insect and mammalian cells

Q Wang, Q Sun, DM Czajkowsky, Z Shao - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Topologically associating domains (TADs) are fundamental elements of the eukaryotic
genomic structure. However, recent studies suggest that the insulating complexes …

Interleukin-2 improves amyloid pathology, synaptic failure and memory in Alzheimer's disease mice

S Alves, G Churlaud, M Audrain… - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Interleukin-2 (IL-2)-deficient mice have cytoarchitectural hippocampal modifications
and impaired learning and memory ability reminiscent of Alzheimer's disease. IL-2 …

“Stripe” transcription factors provide accessibility to co-binding partners in mammalian genomes

Y Zhao, SV Vartak, A Conte, X Wang, DA Garcia… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Regulatory elements activate promoters by recruiting transcription factors (TFs) to specific
motifs. Notably, TF-DNA interactions often depend on cooperativity with colocalized …

Essential role of Cp190 in physical and regulatory boundary formation

A Kaushal, J Dorier, B Wang, G Mohana… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Boundaries in animal genomes delimit contact domains with enhanced internal contact
frequencies and have debated functions in limiting regulatory cross-talk between domains …

Active promoters give rise to false positive 'Phantom Peaks' in ChIP-seq experiments

D Jain, S Baldi, A Zabel, T Straub… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is widely used to identify chromosomal binding sites.
Chromatin proteins are cross-linked to their target sequences in living cells. The purified …