3D enhancer-promoter interactions and multi-connected hubs: Organizational principles and functional roles

CM Uyehara, E Apostolou - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The spatiotemporal control of gene expression is dependent on the activity of cis-acting
regulatory sequences, called enhancers, which regulate target genes over variable genomic …

A phase separation model for transcriptional control

D Hnisz, K Shrinivas, RA Young, AK Chakraborty… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Phase-separated multi-molecular assemblies provide a general regulatory mechanism to
compartmentalize biochemical reactions within cells. We propose that a phase separation …

TOX and TOX2 transcription factors cooperate with NR4A transcription factors to impose CD8+ T cell exhaustion

H Seo, J Chen, E González-Avalos… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
T cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CAR T cells) have shown impressive
therapeutic efficacy against leukemias and lymphomas. However, they have not been as …

Sequence determinants of human gene regulatory elements

B Sahu, T Hartonen, P Pihlajamaa, B Wei, K Dave… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
DNA can determine where and when genes are expressed, but the full set of sequence
determinants that control gene expression is unknown. Here, we measured the …

Super-enhancers in the control of cell identity and disease

D Hnisz, BJ Abraham, TI Lee, A Lau, V Saint-André… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Super-enhancers are large clusters of transcriptional enhancers that drive expression of
genes that define cell identity. Improved understanding of the roles that super-enhancers …

[HTML][HTML] Master transcription factors and mediator establish super-enhancers at key cell identity genes

WA Whyte, DA Orlando, D Hnisz, BJ Abraham, CY Lin… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Summary Master transcription factors Oct4, Sox2, and Nanog bind enhancer elements and
recruit Mediator to activate much of the gene expression program of pluripotent embryonic …

The transcription factor NFAT promotes exhaustion of activated CD8+ T cells

GJ Martinez, RM Pereira, T Äijö, EY Kim, F Marangoni… - Immunity, 2015 - cell.com
During persistent antigen stimulation, CD8+ T cells show a gradual decrease in effector
function, referred to as exhaustion, which impairs responses in the setting of tumors and …

Selective inhibition of tumor oncogenes by disruption of super-enhancers

J Lovén, HA Hoke, CY Lin, A Lau, DA Orlando… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Chromatin regulators have become attractive targets for cancer therapy, but it is unclear why
inhibition of these ubiquitous regulators should have gene-specific effects in tumor cells …

The impact of interferon-regulatory factors to macrophage differentiation and polarization into M1 and M2

DA Chistiakov, VA Myasoedova, VV Revin… - Immunobiology, 2018 - Elsevier
The mononuclear phagocytes control the body homeostasis through the involvement in
resolving tissue injury and further wound healing. Indeed, local tissue microenvironmental …

[HTML][HTML] Direct observation of a condensate effect on super-enhancer controlled gene bursting

M Du, SH Stitzinger, JH Spille, WK Cho, C Lee, M Hijaz… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Enhancers are distal DNA elements believed to loop and contact promoters to control gene
expression. Recently, we found diffraction-sized transcriptional condensates at genes …