Looping versus linking: toward a model for long-distance gene activation

M Bulger, M Groudine - Genes & development, 1999 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Locus control regions (LCRs) are defined by their ability, in transgenic assays, to direct high-
level, tissue-specific expression of linked genes at all sites of integration examined and at …

Transcriptional enhancers: Intelligent enhanceosomes or flexible billboards?

DN Arnosti, MM Kulkarni - Journal of cellular biochemistry, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In higher eukaryotes, transcriptional enhancers play critical roles in the integration of cellular
signaling information, but apart from a few well‐studied model enhancers, we lack a general …

Active genes dynamically colocalize to shared sites of ongoing transcription

CS Osborne, L Chakalova, KE Brown, D Carter… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
The intranuclear position of many genes has been correlated with their activity state,
suggesting that migration to functional subcompartments may influence gene expression …

Repeat-induced gene silencing in mammals

D Garrick, S Fiering, DIK Martin, E Whitelaw - Nature genetics, 1998 - nature.com
In both plants1–3 and Drosophila melanogastei4, 5. expression from a transgenic locus may
be silenced when repeated trans-gene copies are arranged as a concatameric array. This …

Promoter Elements of vav Drive Transgene Expression In Vivo Throughout the Hematopoietic Compartment

S Ogilvy, D Metcalf, L Gibson, ML Bath… - Blood, The Journal …, 1999 - ashpublications.org
To develop a method for targeting expression of genes to the full hematopoietic system, we
have used transgenic mice to explore the transcriptional regulation of the vav gene, which is …

Probability in transcriptional regulation and its implications for leukocyte differentiation and inducible gene expression

DA Hume - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2000 - ashpublications.org
The phenotype of individual hematopoietic cells, like all other differentiated mammalian
cells, is determined by selective transcription of a subset of the genes encoded within the …

A functional enhancer suppresses silencing of a transgene and prevents its localization close to centromeric heterochromatin

C Francastel, MC Walters, M Groudine, DIK Martin - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
To explore the mechanism by which enhancers maintain gene expression, we have
assessed the ability of an enhancer and derivative mutants to influence silencing and …

To be or not to be active: the stochastic nature of enhancer action

S Fiering, E Whitelaw, DIK Martin - Bioessays, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Transcriptional enhancers are traditionally considered to regulate the rate at which a linked
promoter transcribes mRNA, but recent experiments suggest a reevaluation of this model is …

Epigenetic variation and inheritance in mammals

VK Rakyan, S Beck - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2006 - Elsevier
What determines phenotype is one of the most fundamental questions in biology.
Historically, the search for answers had focused on genetic or environmental variants, but …

Power-law behavior of transcriptional bursting regulated by enhancer–promoter communication

Z Wang, Z Zhang, S Luo, T Zhou, J Zhang - Genome Research, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Revealing how transcriptional bursting kinetics are genomically encoded is challenging
because genome structures are stochastic at the organization level and are suggestively …