Two major mechanisms of chromosome organization

LA Mirny, M Imakaev, N Abdennur - Current opinion in cell biology, 2019 - Elsevier
The spatial organization of chromosomes has long been connected to their polymeric nature
and is believed to be important for their biological functions, including the control of …

Mechanisms of enhancer-promoter interactions in higher eukaryotes

O Kyrchanova, P Georgiev - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
In higher eukaryotes, enhancers determine the activation of developmental gene
transcription in specific cell types and stages of embryogenesis. Enhancers transform the …

[HTML][HTML] Profiling the genetic determinants of chromatin accessibility with scalable single-cell CRISPR screens

N Liscovitch-Brauer, A Montalbano, J Deng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR screens have been used to connect genetic perturbations with changes in gene
expression and phenotypes. Here we describe a CRISPR-based, single-cell combinatorial …

Analysis of Hi-C data using SIP effectively identifies loops in organisms from C. elegans to mammals

MJ Rowley, A Poulet, MH Nichols, BJ Bixler… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
Chromatin loops are a major component of 3D nuclear organization, visually apparent as
intense point-to-point interactions in Hi-C maps. Identification of these loops is a critical part …

Transcriptional enhancers and their communication with gene promoters

H Ray-Jones, M Spivakov - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Transcriptional enhancers play a key role in the initiation and maintenance of gene
expression programmes, particularly in metazoa. How these elements control their target …

ZNF143 in chromatin looping and gene regulation

B Ye, G Yang, Y Li, C Zhang, Q Wang, G Yu - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
ZNF143, a human homolog of the transcriptional activator Staf, is a C2H2-type protein
consisting of seven zinc finger domains. As a transcription factor (TF), ZNF143 is sequence …

LIN28B regulates transcription and potentiates MYCN-induced neuroblastoma through binding to ZNF143 at target gene promotors

T Tao, H Shi, L Mariani, BJ Abraham… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
LIN28B is highly expressed in neuroblastoma and promotes tumorigenesis, at least, in part,
through inhibition of let-7 microRNA biogenesis. Here, we report that overexpression of …

The role of ZNF143 overexpression in rat liver cell proliferation

B Ye, W Shen, C Zhang, M Yu, X Ding, M Yin, Y Wang… - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Zinc finger protein 143 (ZNF143), a member of the Krüppel C2H2-type zinc
finger protein family, is strongly associated with cell cycle regulation and cancer …

A WIZ/cohesin/CTCF complex anchors DNA loops to define gene expression and cell identity

M Justice, ZM Carico, HC Stefan, JM Dowen - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Chromosome structure is a key regulator of gene expression. CTCF and cohesin play critical
roles in structuring chromosomes by mediating physical interactions between distant …

[HTML][HTML] CTCF as an example of DNA-binding transcription factors containing clusters of C2H2-type zinc fingers

OG Maksimenko, DV Fursenko, EV Belova… - Acta …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In mammals, most of the boundaries of topologically associating domains and all well-
studied insulators are rich in binding sites for the CTCF protein. According to existing …