Single-nucleus multiregion transcriptomic analysis of brain vasculature in Alzheimer's disease

N Sun, LA Akay, MH Murdock, Y Park… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cerebrovascular dysregulation is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the changes
that occur in specific cell types have not been fully characterized. Here, we profile single …

BMP6/TAZ-Hippo signaling modulates angiogenesis and endothelial cell response to VEGF

HH Pulkkinen, M Kiema, JP Lappalainen… - Angiogenesis, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The BMP/TGFβ-Smad, Notch and VEGF signaling guides formation of endothelial
tip and stalk cells. However, the crosstalk of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) and …

Higher-order chromosomal structures mediate genome function

I Jerković, Q Szabo, F Bantignies, G Cavalli - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
How chromosomes are organized within the tridimensional space of the nucleus and how
can this organization affect genome function have been long-standing questions on the path …

From nucleus to organs: insights of aryl hydrocarbon receptor molecular mechanisms

CM Rejano-Gordillo, B Marín-Díaz… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a markedly established regulator of a plethora of
cellular and molecular processes. Its initial role in the detoxification of xenobiotic …

Long-range interactions between topologically associating domains shape the four-dimensional genome during differentiation

J Paulsen, TM Liyakat Ali, M Nekrasov, E Delbarre… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genomic information is selectively used to direct spatial and temporal gene expression
during differentiation. Interactions between topologically associating domains (TADs) and …

Reorganization of 3D genome structure may contribute to gene regulatory evolution in primates

IE Eres, K Luo, CJ Hsiao, LE Blake, Y Gilad - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
A growing body of evidence supports the notion that variation in gene regulation plays a
crucial role in both speciation and adaptation. However, a comprehensive functional …

Characterization of a functional endothelial super-enhancer that regulates ADAMTS18 and angiogenesis

I Mushimiyimana, H Niskanen, M Beter… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Super-enhancers are clusters of enhancers associated with cell lineage. They can be
powerful gene-regulators and may be useful in cell-type specific viral-vector development …

Hypoxia-mediated regulation of histone demethylases affects angiogenesis-associated functions in endothelial cells

OHF Liu, M Kiema, M Beter… - … , and vascular biology, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Objective: Previous studies have demonstrated that the expression of several lysine (K)-
specific demethylases (KDMs) is induced by hypoxia. Here, we sought to investigate the …

Robust CTCF-based chromatin architecture underpins epigenetic changes in the heart failure stress–gene response

DP Lee, WLW Tan, CG Anene-Nzelu, CJM Lee, PY Li… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The human genome folds in 3 dimensions to form thousands of chromatin
loops inside the nucleus, encasing genes and cis-regulatory elements for accurate gene …

Hypoxia induces cancer cell-specific chromatin interactions and increases MALAT1 expression in breast cancer cells

JK Stone, JH Kim, L Vukadin, A Richard… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) is a long noncoding
RNA overexpressed in various cancers that promotes cell growth and metastasis. Although …