Shifting the focus of zebrafish toward a model of the tumor microenvironment

JM Weiss, D Lumaquin-Yin, E Montal, S Suresh… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cancer cells exist in a complex ecosystem with numerous other cell types in the tumor
microenvironment (TME). The composition of this tumor/TME ecosystem will vary at each …

The role (s) of NF-Y in development and differentiation

D Dolfini, C Imbriano, R Mantovani - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2024 - nature.com
NF-Y is a conserved sequence-specific trimeric Transcription Factor-TF-binding to the
CCAAT element. We review here the role (s) in development, from pre-implantation embryo …

Mapping the chromatin accessibility landscape of zebrafish embryogenesis at single-cell resolution by SPATAC-seq

K Sun, X Liu, R Xu, C Liu, A Meng, X Lan - Nature Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Currently, the dynamic accessible elements that determine regulatory programs responsible
for the unique identity and function of each cell type during zebrafish embryogenesis lack …

The miR-430 locus with extreme promoter density forms a transcription body during the minor wave of zygotic genome activation

Y Hadzhiev, L Wheatley, L Cooper, F Ansaloni… - Developmental cell, 2023 - cell.com
In anamniote embryos, the major wave of zygotic genome activation starts during the mid-
blastula transition. However, some genes escape global genome repression, are activated …

Alternative promoters in CpG depleted regions are prevalently associated with epigenetic misregulation of liver cancer transcriptomes

C Nepal, JB Andersen - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Transcriptional regulation is commonly governed by alternative promoters. However, the
regulatory architecture in alternative and reference promoters, and how they differ, remains …

The regulatory landscape of 5′ UTRs in translational control during zebrafish embryogenesis

MM Reimão-Pinto, SM Castillo-Hair, G Seelig… - Developmental Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The 5′ UTRs of mRNAs are critical for translation regulation during development, but their
in vivo regulatory features are poorly characterized. Here, we report the regulatory …

Generation and application of endogenously floxed alleles for cell-specific knockout in zebrafish

M Shin, HM Yin, YH Shih, T Nozaki, D Portman… - Developmental Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The zebrafish is amenable to a variety of genetic approaches. However, lack of conditional
deletion alleles limits stage-or cell-specific gene knockout. Here, we applied an existing …

A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in mouse organogenesis

K Sun, X Liu, X Lan - Nature Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Organogenesis is a highly complex and precisely regulated process. Here we profiled the
chromatin accessibility in> 350,000 cells derived from 13 mouse embryos at four …

aChIP is an efficient and sensitive ChIP-seq technique for economically important plant organs

Q Zhang, W Zhong, G Zhu, L Cheng, C Yin, L Deng… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) is crucial for profiling
histone modifications and transcription factor binding throughout the genome. However, its …

[HTML][HTML] Extrusion fountains are hallmarks of chromosome organization emerging upon zygotic genome activation

A Galitsyna, SV Ulianov, NS Bykov, M Veil, M Gao… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The first activation of gene expression during development (zygotic genome activation, ZGA)
is accompanied by massive changes in chromosome organization. The connection between …