Three-dimensional genome organization in immune cell fate and function

S Cuartero, G Stik, R Stadhouders - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Immune cell development and activation demand the precise and coordinated control of
transcriptional programmes. Three-dimensional (3D) organization of the genome has …

ARID1A orchestrates SWI/SNF-mediated sequential binding of transcription factors with ARID1A loss driving pre-memory B cell fate and lymphomagenesis

D Barisic, CR Chin, C Meydan, M Teater, I Tsialta… - Cancer cell, 2024 - cell.com
ARID1A, a subunit of the canonical BAF nucleosome remodeling complex, is commonly
mutated in lymphomas. We show that ARID1A orchestrates B cell fate during the germinal …

Transcriptional heterogeneity overcomes super-enhancer disrupting drug combinations in multiple myeloma

SJ Welsh, BG Barwick, EW Meermeier, DL Riggs… - Blood cancer …, 2024 - AACR
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignancy that is often driven by MYC and that is sustained by
IRF4, which are upregulated by super-enhancers. IKZF1 and IKZF3 bind to super-enhancers …

SMARCA4 is a haploinsufficient B cell lymphoma tumor suppressor that fine-tunes centrocyte cell fate decisions

Q Deng, P Lakra, P Gou, H Yang, C Meydan, M Teater… - Cancer cell, 2024 - cell.com
SMARCA4 encodes one of two mutually exclusive ATPase subunits in the BRG/BRM
associated factor (BAF) complex that is recruited by transcription factors (TFs) to drive …

The epigenetic regulation of the germinal center response

S Wu, Y Yin, X Wang - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene …, 2022 - Elsevier
In response to T-cell-dependent antigens, antigen-experienced B cells migrate to the center
of the B-cell follicle to seed the germinal center (GC) response after cognate interactions …

Bob1 maintains T follicular helper cells for long-term humoral immunity

M Yanagi, I Ikegami, R Kamekura, T Sato… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Humoral immunity is vital for host protection, yet aberrant antibody responses can trigger
harmful inflammation and immune-related disorders. T follicular helper (Tfh) cells, central to …

Antiviral memory B cells exhibit enhanced innate immune response facilitated by epigenetic memory

X Zhu, S Hong, J Bu, Y Liu, C Liu, R Li, T Zhang… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The long-lasting humoral immunity induced by viral infections or vaccinations depends on
memory B cells with greatly increased affinity to viral antigens, which are evolved from …

Loss of CREBBP and KMT2D cooperate to accelerate lymphomagenesis and shape the lymphoma immune microenvironment

J Li, CR Chin, HY Ying, C Meydan, MR Teater… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite regulating overlapping gene enhancers and pathways, CREBBP and KMT2D
mutations recurrently co-occur in germinal center (GC) B cell-derived lymphomas …

[HTML][HTML] Deletion of the mRNA endonuclease Regnase-1 promotes NK cell anti-tumor activity via OCT2-dependent transcription of Ifng

X Sun, Y Nagahama, SK Singh, Y Kozakai… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Limited infiltration and activity of natural killer (NK) and T cells within the tumor
microenvironment (TME) correlate with poor immunotherapy responses. Here, we examined …

GILoop: robust chromatin loop calling across multiple sequencing depths on Hi-C data

F Wang, T Gao, J Lin, Z Zheng, L Huang, M Toseef, X Li… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Graph and image are two common representations of Hi-C cis-contact maps. Existing
computational tools have only adopted Hi-C data modeled as unitary data structures but …