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 …

Single-nucleus analysis of accessible chromatin in developing mouse forebrain reveals cell-type-specific transcriptional regulation

S Preissl, R Fang, H Huang, Y Zhao, R Raviram… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Analysis of chromatin accessibility can reveal transcriptional regulatory sequences,
but heterogeneity of primary tissues poses a significant challenge in mapping the precise …

[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 …

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 …

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 …

Layer-specific chromatin accessibility landscapes reveal regulatory networks in adult mouse visual cortex

LT Gray, Z Yao, TN Nguyen, TK Kim, H Zeng, B Tasic - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Mammalian cortex is a laminar structure, with each layer composed of a characteristic set of
cell types with different morphological, electrophysiological, and connectional properties …

Chromatin regulation of neuronal maturation and plasticity

DA Gallegos, U Chan, LF Chen, AE West - Trends in neurosciences, 2018 - cell.com
Neurons are dynamic cells that respond and adapt to stimuli throughout their long
postmitotic lives. The structural and functional plasticity of neurons requires the regulated …

ISSAAC-seq enables sensitive and flexible multimodal profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in single cells

W Xu, W Yang, Y Zhang, Y Chen, N Hong, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression from the same single cell
provides critical information about cell types in a tissue and cell states during a dynamic …

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 …

Decoding the epigenetic language of neuronal plasticity

E Borrelli, EJ Nestler, CD Allis, P Sassone-Corsi - Neuron, 2008 - cell.com
Neurons are submitted to an exceptional variety of stimuli and are able to convert these into
high-order functions, such as storing memories, controlling behavior, and governing …