Three-dimensional genome restructuring across timescales of activity-induced neuronal gene expression

JA Beagan, ED Pastuzyn, LR Fernandez, MH Guo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Neuronal activation induces rapid transcription of immediate early genes (IEGs) and longer-
term chromatin remodeling around secondary response genes (SRGs). Here, we use high …

Molecular logic of cellular diversification in the mouse cerebral cortex

DJ Di Bella, E Habibi, RR Stickels, G Scalia, J Brown… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The mammalian cerebral cortex has an unparalleled diversity of cell types, which are
generated during development through a series of temporally orchestrated events that are …

Coexpression network architecture reveals the brain-wide and multiregional basis of disease susceptibility

CL Hartl, G Ramaswami, WG Pembroke, S Muller… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gene networks have yielded numerous neurobiological insights, yet an integrated view
across brain regions is lacking. We leverage RNA sequencing in 864 samples representing …

Chromatin accessibility dynamics in a model of human forebrain development

AE Trevino, N Sinnott-Armstrong, J Andersen, SJ Yoon… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The cerebral cortex is responsible for higher-order functions in the nervous
system and has undergone substantial expansion in size in primates. The development of …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development

RS Ziffra, CN Kim, JM Ross, A Wilfert, TN Turner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During mammalian development, differences in chromatin state coincide with cellular
differentiation and reflect changes in the gene regulatory landscape. In the developing brain …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin and gene-regulatory dynamics of the developing human cerebral cortex at single-cell resolution

AE Trevino, F Müller, J Andersen, L Sundaram… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Genetic perturbations of cortical development can lead to neurodevelopmental disease,
including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). To identify genomic regions crucial to …

Neuronal activity modifies the chromatin accessibility landscape in the adult brain

Y Su, J Shin, C Zhong, S Wang, P Roychowdhury… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Neuronal activity-induced gene expression modulates the function and plasticity of the
nervous system. It is unknown whether and to what extent neuronal activity may trigger …

Immediate and deferred epigenomic signatures of in vivo neuronal activation in mouse hippocampus

J Fernandez-Albert, M Lipinski… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Activity-driven transcription plays an important role in many brain processes, including those
underlying memory and epilepsy. Here we combine genetic tagging of nuclei and ribosomes …

Chromatin connectivity maps reveal dynamic promoter–enhancer long-range associations

Y Zhang, CH Wong, RY Birnbaum, G Li, R Favaro… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
In multicellular organisms, transcription regulation is one of the central mechanisms
modelling lineage differentiation and cell-fate determination. Transcription requires dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale 3D genome rewiring during mouse neural development

B Bonev, NM Cohen, Q Szabo, L Fritsch… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Chromosome conformation capture technologies have revealed important insights into
genome folding. Yet, how spatial genome architecture is related to gene expression and cell …