Transcription regulation by biomolecular condensates

G Pei, H Lyons, P Li, BR Sabari - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates regulate transcription by dynamically compartmentalizing the
transcription machinery. Classic models of transcription regulation focus on the recruitment …

Real-time single-molecule imaging of transcriptional regulatory networks in living cells

DW Hwang, A Maekiniemi, RH Singer… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene regulatory networks drive the specific transcriptional programmes responsible for the
diversification of cell types during the development of multicellular organisms. Although our …

[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 …

Dynamic modes of Notch transcription hubs conferring memory and stochastic activation revealed by live imaging the co-activator Mastermind

FJ deHaro-Arbona, C Roussos, S Baloul, J Townson… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Developmental programming involves the accurate conversion of signalling levels and
dynamics to transcriptional outputs. The transcriptional relay in the Notch pathway relies on …

Enhancer dynamics: Unraveling the mechanism of transcriptional bursting

T Fukaya - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
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Transcriptional condensates: a blessing or a curse for gene regulation?

M Stortz, DM Presman, V Levi - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Whether phase-separation is involved in the organization of the transcriptional machinery
and if it aids or inhibits the transcriptional process is a matter of intense debate. In this Mini …

Glutamine-rich regions of the disordered CREB transactivation domain mediate dynamic intra-and intermolecular interactions

MA Martinez-Yamout, I Nasir… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The cyclic AMP response element (CRE) binding protein (CREB) is a transcription factor that
contains a 280-residue N-terminal transactivation domain and a basic leucine zipper that …

Dynamic microenvironments shape nuclear organization and gene expression

G Hayward-Lara, MD Fischer, M Mir - Current Opinion in Genetics & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microenvironments are local high concentrations of multiple nuclear factors.•
Microenvironments form due to protein–protein and protein–chromatin interactions.•Local …

Commonly asked questions about transcriptional activation domains

A Udupa, SR Kotha, MV Staller - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Eukaryotic transcription factors activate gene expression with their DNA-binding domains
and activation domains. DNA-binding domains bind the genome by recognizing structurally …

Oncogenic transcription factors instruct promoter-enhancer hubs in individual triple negative breast cancer cells

J Zhao, Y Zhou, I Tzelepis, NG Burget, J Shi… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Sequencing-based mapping of ensemble pairwise interactions among regulatory elements
support the existence of topological assemblies known as promoter-enhancer hubs or …