Phase separation and transcription regulation: are super‐enhancers and locus control regions primary sites of transcription complex assembly?

A Gurumurthy, Y Shen, EM Gunn, J Bungert - BioEssays, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It is proposed that the multiple enhancer elements associated with locus control regions and
super‐enhancers recruit RNA polymerase II and efficiently assemble elongation competent …

Metabolic control of induced pluripotency

SA Sinenko, AN Tomilin - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Pluripotent stem cells of the mammalian epiblast and their cultured counterparts—embryonic
stem cells (ESCs) and epiblast stem cells (EpiSCs)—have the capacity to differentiate in all …

Bromodomain inhibition of the coactivators CBP/EP300 facilitate cellular reprogramming

A Ebrahimi, K Sevinç, G Gürhan Sevinç… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Silencing of the somatic cell type-specific genes is a critical yet poorly understood step in
reprogramming. To uncover pathways that maintain cell identity, we performed a …

Global hyperactivation of enhancers stabilizes human and mouse naive pluripotency through inhibition of CDK8/19 Mediator kinases

CJ Lynch, R Bernad, A Martínez-Val, MN Shahbazi… - Nature Cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) transition between cell states in vitro, reflecting developmental
changes in the early embryo. PSCs can be stabilized in the naive state by blocking …

The NuRD complex cooperates with SALL4 to orchestrate reprogramming

B Wang, C Li, J Ming, L Wu, S Fang, Y Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell fate decision involves rewiring of the genome, but remains poorly understood at the
chromatin level. Here, we report that chromatin remodeling complex NuRD participates in …

Mechanistic insights into COVID-19 by global analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro substrate degradome

I Pablos, Y Machado, HCR de Jesus, Y Mohamud… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
The main viral protease (3CL pro) is indispensable for SARS-CoV-2 replication. We
delineate the human protein substrate landscape of 3CL pro by TAILS substrate-targeted N …

Label-free quantitative proteomics reveals the mechanism of microwave-induced Tartary buckwheat germination and flavonoids enrichment

S Wang, S Wang, J Wang, W Peng - Food Research International, 2022 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to reveal the mechanism underlying the effects of microwave
treatment on Tartary buckwheat germination and flavonoids enrichment. Label-free …

Predict long-range enhancer regulation based on protein–protein interactions between transcription factors

H Wang, B Huang, J Wang - Nucleic Acids Research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Long-range regulation by distal enhancers plays critical roles in cell-type specific
transcriptional programs. Computational predictions of genome-wide enhancer–promoter …

Going up the hill: Chromatin‐based barriers to epigenetic reprogramming

DH Arabacı, G Terzioğlu, B Bayırbaşı… - The FEBS …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The establishment and maintenance of cellular identity are crucial during development and
tissue homeostasis. Epigenetic mechanisms based largely on DNA methylation and histone …

Oncogenic seRNA functional activation: a novel mechanism of tumorigenesis

Y Tan, Y Li, F Tang - Molecular Cancer, 2020 - Springer
Abstract seRNA is a noncoding RNA (ncRNA) transcribed from active super-enhancer (SE),
through which SE exerts biological functions and participates in various physiological and …