Osteoimmunology: interactions of the bone and immune system

J Lorenzo, M Horowitz, Y Choi - Endocrine reviews, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Bone and the immune system are both complex tissues that respectively regulate the
skeleton and the body's response to invading pathogens. It has now become clear that these …

The zinc finger-containing transcription factors GATA-4,-5, and-6: ubiquitously expressed regulators of tissue-specific gene expression

JD Molkentin - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2000 - ASBMB
Six GATA transcription factors have been identified in vertebrates, each of which contains a
highly conserved DNA binding domain consisting of two zinc fingers of the motif Cys-X2-Cys …

Highly efficient therapeutic gene editing of human hematopoietic stem cells

Y Wu, J Zeng, BP Roscoe, P Liu, Q Yao… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Re-expression of the paralogous γ-globin genes (HBG1/2) could be a universal strategy to
ameliorate the severe β-globin disorders sickle cell disease (SCD) and β-thalassemia by …

Interrogation of enhancer function by enhancer-targeting CRISPR epigenetic editing

K Li, Y Liu, H Cao, Y Zhang, Z Gu, X Liu, A Yu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tissue-specific gene expression requires coordinated control of gene-proximal and-distal
cis-regulatory elements (CREs), yet functional analysis of gene-distal CREs such as …

[HTML][HTML] Controlling long-range genomic interactions at a native locus by targeted tethering of a looping factor

W Deng, J Lee, H Wang, J Miller, A Reik, PD Gregory… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Chromatin loops juxtapose distal enhancers with active promoters, but their molecular
architecture and relationship with transcription remain unclear. In erythroid cells, the locus …

An expansive human regulatory lexicon encoded in transcription factor footprints

S Neph, J Vierstra, AB Stergachis, AP Reynolds… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Regulatory factor binding to genomic DNA protects the underlying sequence from cleavage
by DNase I, leaving nucleotide-resolution footprints. Using genomic DNase I footprinting …

Failure of blood-island formation and vasculogenesis in Flk-1-deficient mice

F Shalaby, J Rossant, TP Yamaguchi, M Gertsenstein… - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
THE receptor tyrosine kinase Flk-1 (ref. 1) is believed to play a pivotal role in endothelial
development. Expression of the Flk-1 receptor is restricted to endothelial cells and their …

Isolation of NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), a NF-E2-like basic leucine zipper transcriptional activator that binds to the tandem NF-E2/AP1 repeat of the beta-globin locus …

P Moi, K Chan, I Asunis, A Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 1994 - National Acad Sciences
Hypersensitive site 2 located in the beta-globin locus control region confers high levels of
expression to the genes of the beta-globin cluster. A tandem repeat of the consensus …

[HTML][HTML] Circuitry and dynamics of human transcription factor regulatory networks

S Neph, AB Stergachis, A Reynolds, R Sandstrom… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The combinatorial cross-regulation of hundreds of sequence-specific transcription factors
(TFs) defines a regulatory network that underlies cellular identity and function. Here we use …

Role of the Flt-1 receptor tyrosine kinase in regulating the assembly of vascular endothelium

GH Fong, J Rossant, M Gertsenstein, ML Breitman - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
THE vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its high-affinity binding receptors, the
tyrosine kinases Flt-1 and Flk-1, are thought to be important for the development of …