Cell-type-directed design of synthetic enhancers

II Taskiran, KI Spanier, H Dickmänken, N Kempynck… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Transcriptional enhancers act as docking stations for combinations of transcription factors
and thereby regulate spatiotemporal activation of their target genes. It has been a long …

Rewiring gene circuitry for plant improvement

AT Borowsky, J Bailey-Serres - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Aspirations for high crop growth and yield, nutritional quality and bioproduction of materials
are challenged by climate change and limited adoption of new technologies. Here, we …

Symbolic recording of signalling and cis-regulatory element activity to DNA

W Chen, J Choi, X Li, JF Nathans, B Martin, W Yang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Measurements of gene expression or signal transduction activity are conventionally
performed using methods that require either the destruction or live imaging of a biological …

Decoding biology with massively parallel reporter assays and machine learning

A La Fleur, Y Shi, G Seelig - Genes & Development, 2024 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) are powerful tools for quantifying the impacts of
sequence variation on gene expression. Reading out molecular phenotypes with …

Multiplex profiling of developmental cis-regulatory elements with quantitative single-cell expression reporters

JB Lalanne, SG Regalado, S Domcke, D Calderon… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The inability to scalably and precisely measure the activity of developmental cis-regulatory
elements (CREs) in multicellular systems is a bottleneck in genomics. Here we develop a …

Unlocking metabolic insights with mouse genetic diversity

SWC Masson, HB Cutler, DE James - The EMBO Journal, 2024 - embopress.org
Metabolic diseases are caused by a complex interplay between genetics and the
environment, yet many basic studies guiding our understanding of metabolism are confined …

Dirichlet flow matching with applications to dna sequence design

H Stark, B Jing, C Wang, G Corso, B Berger… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Discrete diffusion or flow models could enable faster and more controllable sequence
generation than autoregressive models. We show that na\" ive linear flow matching on the …

Multiplexed single-cell characterization of alternative polyadenylation regulators

MH Kowalski, HH Wessels, J Linder, C Dalgarno… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Most mammalian genes have multiple polyA sites, representing a substantial source of
transcript diversity regulated by the cleavage and polyadenylation (CPA) machinery. To …

[HTML][HTML] Rewriting regulatory DNA to dissect and reprogram gene expression

GE Martyn, MT Montgomery, H Jones, K Guo… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Regulatory DNA sequences within enhancers and promoters bind transcription factors to
encode cell type-specific patterns of gene expression. However, the regulatory effects and …

GPro: generative AI-empowered toolkit for promoter design

H Wang, Q Du, Y Wang, H Xu, Z Wei, X Wang - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Promoters with desirable properties are crucial in biotechnological applications.
Generative AI (GenAI) has demonstrated potential in creating novel synthetic promoters with …