Can changes in 3D genome architecture create new regulatory landscapes that contribute to phenotypic evolution?

E Preger-Ben Noon, N Frankel - Essays in Biochemistry, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Animal genomes are compartmentalized into insulated regulatory units named topology-
associated domains (TADs). TADs insulate gene promoters from enhancers that occupy …

Mutagenic mechanisms of cancer-associated DNA polymerase ϵ alleles

M Herzog, E Alonso-Perez, I Salguero… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
A single amino acid residue change in the exonuclease domain of human DNA polymerase
ϵ, P286R, is associated with the development of colorectal cancers, and has been shown to …

Mutation bias and GC content shape antimutator invasions

A Couce, O Tenaillon - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Mutators represent a successful strategy in rapidly adapting asexual populations, but theory
predicts their eventual extinction due to their unsustainably large deleterious load. While …

Genome instability footprint under rapamycin and hydroxyurea treatments

J Li, S Stenberg, JX Yue, E Mikhalev, D Thompson… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The mutational processes dictating the accumulation of mutations in genomes are shaped
by genetic background, environment and their interactions. Accurate quantification of …

YeastIT: reducing mutational bias for in vivo directed evolution using a novel yeast mutator strain based on dual adenine-/cytosine-targeting and error-prone DNA …

M Napiorkowska, K Fischer, M Penner, P Knyphausen… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Engineering proteins with new functions and properties often requires navigating large
sequence spaces through rounds of iterative improvement. However, a disparity exists …