Cis-regulatory sequences in plants: their importance, discovery, and future challenges

RJ Schmitz, E Grotewold, M Stam - The plant cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The identification and characterization of cis-regulatory DNA sequences and how they
function to coordinate responses to developmental and environmental cues is of paramount …

Determinants of enhancer and promoter activities of regulatory elements

R Andersson, A Sandelin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The proper activities of enhancers and gene promoters are essential for coordinated
transcription within a cell. Although diverse methodologies have been developed to identify …

Compatibility rules of human enhancer and promoter sequences

DT Bergman, TR Jones, V Liu, J Ray, E Jagoda, L Siraj… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gene regulation in the human genome is controlled by distal enhancers that activate specific
nearby promoters. A proposed model for this specificity is that promoters have sequence …

Eukaryotic core promoters and the functional basis of transcription initiation

V Haberle, A Stark - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract RNA polymerase II (Pol II) core promoters are specialized DNA sequences at
transcription start sites of protein-coding and non-coding genes that support the assembly of …

Enhancers as non-coding RNA transcription units: recent insights and future perspectives

W Li, D Notani, MG Rosenfeld - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Networks of regulatory enhancers dictate distinct cell identities and cellular responses to
diverse signals by instructing precise spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression. However …

Sequential regulatory activity prediction across chromosomes with convolutional neural networks

DR Kelley, YA Reshef, M Bileschi, D Belanger… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Models for predicting phenotypic outcomes from genotypes have important applications to
understanding genomic function and improving human health. Here, we develop a machine …

An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues

R Andersson, C Gebhard, I Miguel-Escalada, I Hoof… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Enhancers control the correct temporal and cell-type-specific activation of gene expression
in multicellular eukaryotes. Knowing their properties, regulatory activity and targets is crucial …

Evaluating enhancer function and transcription

A Field, K Adelman - Annual review of biochemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Cell-type-and condition-specific profiles of gene expression require coordination between
protein-coding gene promoters and cis-regulatory sequences called enhancers. Enhancers …

A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Regulated transcription controls the diversity, developmental pathways and spatial
organization of the hundreds of cell types that make up a mammal. Using single-molecule …

Transcription factors: from enhancer binding to developmental control

F Spitz, EEM Furlong - Nature reviews genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Developmental progression is driven by specific spatiotemporal domains of gene
expression, which give rise to stereotypically patterned embryos even in the presence of …