The selection and function of cell type-specific enhancers

S Heinz, CE Romanoski, C Benner… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
The human body contains several hundred cell types, all of which share the same genome.
In metazoans, much of the regulatory code that drives cell type-specific gene expression is …

Metazoan promoters: emerging characteristics and insights into transcriptional regulation

B Lenhard, A Sandelin, P Carninci - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Promoters are crucial for gene regulation. They vary greatly in terms of associated regulatory
elements, sequence motifs, the choice of transcription start sites and other features. Several …

The spotted gar genome illuminates vertebrate evolution and facilitates human-teleost comparisons

I Braasch, AR Gehrke, JJ Smith, K Kawasaki… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To connect human biology to fish biomedical models, we sequenced the genome of spotted
gar (Lepisosteus oculatus), whose lineage diverged from teleosts before teleost genome …

Deep conservation of the enhancer regulatory code in animals

ES Wong, D Zheng, SZ Tan, NI Bower, V Garside… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In animals, gene regulatory networks specify cell identity in space and
time. Transcription of genes in these networks is modulated by a class of cis-regulatory …

Divergent lncRNAs regulate gene expression and lineage differentiation in pluripotent cells

S Luo, JY Lu, L Liu, Y Yin, C Chen, X Han, B Wu, R Xu… - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Divergent lncRNAs that are transcribed in the opposite direction to nearby protein-coding
genes comprise a significant proportion (∼ 20%) of total lncRNAs in mammalian genomes …

[HTML][HTML] Remodeling of the enhancer landscape during macrophage activation is coupled to enhancer transcription

MU Kaikkonen, NJ Spann, S Heinz, CE Romanoski… - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
Recent studies suggest a hierarchical model in which lineage-determining factors act in a
collaborative manner to select and prime cell-specific enhancers, thereby enabling signal …

Ultraconserved elements anchor thousands of genetic markers spanning multiple evolutionary timescales

BC Faircloth, JE McCormack, NG Crawford… - Systematic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Although massively parallel sequencing has facilitated large-scale DNA sequencing,
comparisons among distantly related species rely upon small portions of the genome that …

Evolutionarily conserved elements in vertebrate, insect, worm, and yeast genomes

A Siepel, G Bejerano, JS Pedersen… - Genome …, 2005 - genome.cshlp.org
We have conducted a comprehensive search for conserved elements in vertebrate
genomes, using genome-wide multiple alignments of five vertebrate species (human …

[HTML][HTML] A bivalent chromatin structure marks key developmental genes in embryonic stem cells

BE Bernstein, TS Mikkelsen, X Xie, M Kamal… - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
The most highly conserved noncoding elements (HCNEs) in mammalian genomes cluster
within regions enriched for genes encoding developmentally important transcription factors …

Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

Management Group Liefer Laura A. 51 Wetterstrand … - nature, 2007 - nature.com
We report the generation and analysis of functional data from multiple, diverse experiments
performed on a targeted 1% of the human genome as part of the pilot phase of the ENCODE …