The role and activity of SWI/SNF chromatin remodelers

T Bieluszewski, S Prakash, T Roulé… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
SWITCH deficient SUCROSE NONFERMENTING (SWI/SNF) class chromatin remodeling
complexes (CRCs) use the energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to facilitate access of …

3D chromatin architecture and transcription regulation in cancer

S Deng, Y Feng, S Pauklin - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Chromatin has distinct three-dimensional (3D) architectures important in key biological
processes, such as cell cycle, replication, differentiation, and transcription regulation. In turn …

Transcriptional coupling of distant regulatory genes in living embryos

M Levo, J Raimundo, XY Bing, Z Sisco, PJ Batut… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The prevailing view of metazoan gene regulation is that individual genes are independently
regulated by their own dedicated sets of transcriptional enhancers. Past studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic control of chromatin-associated m6A methylation regulates nascent RNA synthesis

W Xu, C He, EG Kaye, J Li, M Mu, GM Nelson, L Dong… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) methylation is co-transcriptionally deposited on
mRNA, but a possible role of m 6 A on transcription remains poorly understood. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Histone modifications regulate pioneer transcription factor cooperativity

KK Sinha, S Bilokapic, Y Du, D Malik, M Halic - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Pioneer transcription factors have the ability to access DNA in compacted chromatin.
Multiple transcription factors can bind together to a regulatory element in a cooperative way …

Chromatin accessibility in the Drosophila embryo is determined by transcription factor pioneering and enhancer activation

KJ Brennan, M Weilert, S Krueger, A Pampari, H Liu… - Developmental cell, 2023 - cell.com
Chromatin accessibility is integral to the process by which transcription factors (TFs) read out
cis-regulatory DNA sequences, but it is difficult to differentiate between TFs that drive …

Kinetic principles underlying pioneer function of GAGA transcription factor in live cells

X Tang, T Li, S Liu, J Wisniewski, Q Zheng… - Nature structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
How pioneer factors interface with chromatin to promote accessibility for transcription control
is poorly understood in vivo. Here, we directly visualize chromatin association by the …

GAF is essential for zygotic genome activation and chromatin accessibility in the early Drosophila embryo

MM Gaskill, TJ Gibson, ED Larson, MM Harrison - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Following fertilization, the genomes of the germ cells are reprogrammed to form the
totipotent embryo. Pioneer transcription factors are essential for remodeling the chromatin …

Structures and consequences of pioneer factor binding to nucleosomes

E Luzete-Monteiro, KS Zaret - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Pioneer transcription factors are able to bind a partially exposed motif on the surface of a
nucleosome, enabling the proteins to target sites in silent regions of chromatin that have …

The control of transcriptional memory by stable mitotic bookmarking

M Bellec, J Dufourt, G Hunt, H Lenden-Hasse… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To maintain cellular identities during development, gene expression profiles must be
faithfully propagated through cell generations. The reestablishment of gene expression …