Looping the genome with SMC complexes

E Kim, R Barth, C Dekker - Annual review of biochemistry, 2023 - annualreviews.org
SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) protein complexes are an evolutionarily
conserved family of motor proteins that hold sister chromatids together and fold genomes …

Best practices for the visualization, mapping, and manipulation of R‐loops

F Chédin, SR Hartono, LA Sanz… - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
R‐loops represent an abundant class of large non‐B DNA structures in genomes. Even
though they form transiently and at modest frequencies, interfering with R‐loop formation or …

PARP1 associates with R-loops to promote their resolution and genome stability

N Laspata, P Kaur, SY Mersaoui, D Muoio… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
PARP1 is a DNA-dependent ADP-Ribose transferase with ADP-ribosylation activity that is
triggered by DNA breaks and non-B DNA structures to mediate their resolution. PARP1 was …

CTCF and R-loops are boundaries of cohesin-mediated DNA looping

H Zhang, Z Shi, EJ Banigan, Y Kim, H Yu, X Bai… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cohesin and CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) are key regulatory proteins of three-dimensional
(3D) genome organization. Cohesin extrudes DNA loops that are anchored by CTCF in a …

Genome-wide mapping reveals R-loops associated with centromeric repeats in maize

Y Liu, Q Liu, H Su, K Liu, X Xiao, W Li, Q Sun… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
R-loops are stable chromatin structures comprising a DNA: RNA hybrid and a displaced
single-stranded DNA. R-loops have been implicated in gene expression and chromatin …

A cohesin traffic pattern genetically linked to gene regulation

AL Valton, SV Venev, B Mair, ES Khokhar… - Nature structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
Cohesin-mediated loop extrusion has been shown to be blocked at specific cis-elements,
including CTCF sites, producing patterns of loops and domain boundaries along …

Full circle: a brief history of cohesin and the regulation of gene expression

JA Horsfield - The FEBS journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The cohesin complex has a range of crucial functions in the cell. Cohesin is essential for
mediating chromatid cohesion during mitosis, for repair of double‐strand DNA breaks, and …

EWSR1 maintains centromere identity

R Kitagawa, Y Niikura, PJ Houghton, K Kitagawa - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
The centromere is essential for ensuring high-fidelity transmission of chromosomes. CENP-
A, the centromeric histone H3 variant, is thought to be the epigenetic mark of centromere …

Meiotic protein SYCP2 confers resistance to DNA-damaging agents through R-loop-mediated DNA repair

Y Wang, B Gao, L Zhang, X Wang, X Zhu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Drugs targeting the DNA damage response (DDR) are widely used in cancer therapy, but
resistance to these drugs remains a major clinical challenge. Here, we show that SYCP2, a …

[HTML][HTML] DeepMC-iNABP: Deep learning for multiclass identification and classification of nucleic acid-binding proteins

F Cui, S Li, Z Zhang, M Sui, C Cao, AEL Hesham… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nucleic acid-binding proteins (NABPs), including DNA-binding proteins (DBPs) and RNA-
binding proteins (RBPs), play vital roles in gene expression. Accurate identification of these …