Human topoisomerases and their roles in genome stability and organization

Y Pommier, A Nussenzweig, S Takeda… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Human topoisomerases comprise a family of six enzymes: two type IB (TOP1 and
mitochondrial TOP1 (TOP1MT), two type IIA (TOP2A and TOP2B) and two type IA (TOP3A …

Determinants of enhancer and promoter activities of regulatory elements

R Andersson, A Sandelin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The proper activities of enhancers and gene promoters are essential for coordinated
transcription within a cell. Although diverse methodologies have been developed to identify …

Origins of DNA replication in eukaryotes

Y Hu, B Stillman - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Errors occurring during DNA replication can result in inaccurate replication, incomplete
replication, or re-replication, resulting in genome instability that can lead to diseases such as …

Neuronal DNA double-strand breaks lead to genome structural variations and 3D genome disruption in neurodegeneration

V Dileep, CA Boix, H Mathys, A Marco, GM Welch… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Persistent DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in neurons are an early pathological hallmark
of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD), with the potential to …

The role of 3D genome organization in development and cell differentiation

H Zheng, W Xie - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, the genome does not exist as a linear molecule but instead is hierarchically
packaged inside the nucleus. This complex genome organization includes multiscale …

Proteolysis-targeting chimeras as therapeutics and tools for biological discovery

GM Burslem, CM Crews - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
New biological tools provide new techniques to probe fundamental biological processes.
Here we describe the burgeoning field of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), which …

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 …

Control of DNA replication timing in the 3D genome

C Marchal, J Sima, DM Gilbert - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2019 - nature.com
The 3D organization of mammalian chromatin was described more than 30 years ago by
visualizing sites of DNA synthesis at different times during the S phase of the cell cycle …

PHOTACs enable optical control of protein degradation

M Reynders, BS Matsuura, M Bérouti, D Simoneschi… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
PROTACs (PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeras) are bifunctional molecules that target proteins
for ubiquitylation by an E3 ligase complex and subsequent degradation by the proteasome …

Structural variations in cancer and the 3D genome

F Dubois, N Sidiropoulos, J Weischenfeldt… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Structural variations (SVs) affect more of the cancer genome than any other type of somatic
genetic alteration but difficulties in detecting and interpreting them have limited our …