Context transcription factors establish cooperative environments and mediate enhancer communication

JF Kribelbauer, O Pushkarev, V Gardeux, J Russeil… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Many enhancers play a crucial role in regulating gene expression by assembling regulatory
factor (RF) clusters, also referred to as condensates. This process is essential for facilitating …

Integration of single-cell transcriptome and chromatin accessibility and its application on tumor investigation

C Yang, Y Jin, Y Yin - Life Medicine, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The advent of single-cell sequencing techniques has not only revolutionized the
investigation of biological processes but also significantly contributed to unraveling cellular …

Functional similarity of non-coding regions is revealed in phylogenetic average motif score representations

A Alam, AG Duncan, JA Mitchell, AM Moses - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Here we frame the cis-regulatory code (that connects the regulatory functions of non-coding
regions, such as promoters and UTRs, to their DNA sequences) as a representation building …

[HTML][HTML] PACS allows comprehensive dissection of multiple factors governing chromatin accessibility from snATAC-seq data

Z Miao, J Wang, K Park, D Kuang, J Kim - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Single nucleus ATAC-seq (snATAC-seq) experimental designs have become increasingly
complex with multiple factors that might affect chromatin accessibility, including genotype …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid profiling of transcription factor-cofactor interaction networks reveals principles of epigenetic regulation

MM Inge, R Miller, H Hook, D Bray, JL Keenan, R Zhao… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Summary Transcription factor (TF)-cofactor (COF) interactions define dynamic, cell-specific
networks that govern gene expression; however, these networks are understudied due to a …

[HTML][HTML] An enhancer RNA recruits MLL1 to regulate transcription of Myb

J Kim, LF Diaz, MJ Miller, B Leadem, I Krivega, A Dean - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Myb proto-oncogene encodes the transcription factor c-MYB, which is critical for
hematopoiesis. Distant enhancers of Myb form a hub of interactions with the Myb promoter …

ChromatinHD connects single-cell DNA accessibility and conformation to gene expression through scale-adaptive machine learning

W Saelens, O Pushkarev, B Deplancke - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Machine learning methods that fully exploit the dual modality of single-cell RNA+ ATAC-seq
techniques are still lacking. Here, we developed ChromatinHD, a pair of models that uses …

Iterative deep learning-design of human enhancers exploits condensed sequence grammar to achieve cell type-specificity

CH Yin, S Castillo Hair, G Woo Byeon, P Bromley… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
An important and largely unsolved problem in synthetic biology is how to target gene
expression to specific cell types. Here, we apply iterative deep learning to design synthetic …

Transcription factor binding site divergence across maize inbred lines drives transcriptional and phenotypic variation

M Galli, Z Chen, T Ghandour, A Chaudhry, J Gregory… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Regulatory elements are important constituents of plant genomes that have shaped ancient
and modern crops. Their identification, function, and diversity in crop genomes however are …

Dysregulation in Spatiotemporal Expression of HMX1 Coordinated by Multifaceted Enhancers Drives an Auricular Disorder

X Xu, Q Chen, Q Huang, TC Cox, H Zhu, J Hu, X Han… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Enhancers, through the combinatorial action of transcription factors (TFs), dictate both the
spatial specificity and the levels of gene expression, and their aberrations can result in …