Characterizing cis-regulatory elements using single-cell epigenomics

S Preissl, KJ Gaulton, B Ren - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Cell type-specific gene expression patterns and dynamics during development or in disease
are controlled by cis-regulatory elements (CREs), such as promoters and enhancers …

Applications of single-cell sequencing in cancer research: progress and perspectives

Y Lei, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, B Zhang, J Liu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Single-cell sequencing, including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics and
metabolomics sequencing, is a powerful tool to decipher the cellular and molecular …

Single-cell DNA methylation and 3D genome architecture in the human brain

W Tian, J Zhou, A Bartlett, Q Zeng, H Liu, RG Castanon… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Delineating the gene-regulatory programs underlying complex cell types is fundamental for
understanding brain function in health and disease. Here, we comprehensively examined …

Single-cell nuclear architecture across cell types in the mouse brain

Y Takei, S Zheng, J Yun, S Shah, N Pierson, J White… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Diverse cell types in tissues have distinct gene expression programs, chromatin states, and
nuclear architectures. To correlate such multimodal information across thousands of single …

Computational methods for analysing multiscale 3D genome organization

Y Zhang, L Boninsegna, M Yang, T Misteli… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent progress in whole-genome mapping and imaging technologies has enabled the
characterization of the spatial organization and folding of the genome in the nucleus. In …

Multiscale and integrative single-cell Hi-C analysis with Higashi

R Zhang, T Zhou, J Ma - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Single-cell Hi-C (scHi-C) can identify cell-to-cell variability of three-dimensional
(3D) chromatin organization, but the sparseness of measured interactions poses an analysis …

Linking genome structures to functions by simultaneous single-cell Hi-C and RNA-seq

Z Liu, Y Chen, Q Xia, M Liu, H Xu, Y Chi, Y Deng… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Much progress has been made recently in single-cell chromosome conformation capture
technologies. However, a method that allows simultaneous profiling of chromatin …

Non-cell-autonomous disruption of nuclear architecture as a potential cause of COVID-19-induced anosmia

M Zazhytska, A Kodra, DA Hoagland, J Frere… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 infects less than 1% of cells in the human body, yet it can cause severe
damage in a variety of organs. Thus, deciphering the non-cell-autonomous effects of SARS …

Simultaneous profiling of chromatin architecture and transcription in single cells

J Qu, J Sun, C Zhao, X Liu, X Zhang, S Jiang… - Nature Structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The three-dimensional structure of chromatin plays a crucial role in development and
disease, both of which are associated with transcriptional changes. However, given the …

Pairtools: from sequencing data to chromosome contacts

Open2C, N Abdennur, G Fudenberg… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The field of 3D genome organization produces large amounts of sequencing data from Hi-C
and a rapidly-expanding set of other chromosome conformation protocols (3C+). Massive …