The spatial organization of transcriptional control

A Hafner, A Boettiger - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
In animals, the sequences for controlling gene expression do not concentrate just at the
transcription start site of genes, but are frequently thousands to millions of base pairs distal …

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 …

Is euchromatin really open in the cell?

K Maeshima, S Iida, MA Shimazoe, S Tamura… - Trends in Cell Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Genomic DNA is wrapped around a core histone octamer and forms a nucleosome. In
higher eukaryotic cells, strings of nucleosomes are irregularly folded as chromatin domains …

Loop stacking organizes genome folding from TADs to chromosomes

A Hafner, M Park, SE Berger, SE Murphy, EP Nora… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Although population-level analyses revealed significant roles for CTCF and cohesin in
mammalian genome organization, their contributions at the single-cell level remain …

Loop-extrusion and polymer phase-separation can co-exist at the single-molecule level to shape chromatin folding

M Conte, E Irani, AM Chiariello, A Abraham… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Loop-extrusion and phase-separation have been proposed as mechanisms that shape
chromosome spatial organization. It is unclear, however, how they perform relative to each …

Repression and 3D-restructuring resolves regulatory conflicts in evolutionarily rearranged genomes

AR Ringel, Q Szabo, AM Chiariello, K Chudzik… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Regulatory landscapes drive complex developmental gene expression, but it remains
unclear how their integrity is maintained when incorporating novel genes and functions …

CTCF mediates dosage-and sequence-context-dependent transcriptional insulation by forming local chromatin domains

H Huang, Q Zhu, A Jussila, Y Han, B Bintu, C Kern… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Insulators play a critical role in spatiotemporal gene regulation in animals. The evolutionarily
conserved CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) is required for insulator function in mammals, but …

MiOS, an integrated imaging and computational strategy to model gene folding with nucleosome resolution

MV Neguembor, JP Arcon, D Buitrago… - Nature structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
The linear sequence of DNA provides invaluable information about genes and their
regulatory elements along chromosomes. However, to fully understand gene function and …

Genome modeling: from chromatin fibers to genes

S Portillo-Ledesma, Z Li, T Schlick - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The intricacies of the 3D hierarchical organization of the genome have been approached by
many creative modeling studies. The specific model/simulation technique combination …

Predicting genome architecture: challenges and solutions

P Belokopytova, V Fishman - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Genome architecture plays a pivotal role in gene regulation. The use of high-throughput
methods for chromatin profiling and 3-D interaction mapping provide rich experimental data …