Modulating biomolecular condensates: a novel approach to drug discovery

DM Mitrea, M Mittasch, BF Gomes, IA Klein… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
In the past decade, membraneless assemblies known as biomolecular condensates have
been reported to play key roles in many cellular functions by compartmentalizing specific …

Liquid–liquid phase separation in chromatin

K Rippe - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2022 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In eukaryotic cells, protein and RNA factors involved in genome activities like transcription,
RNA processing, DNA replication, and repair accumulate in self-organizing membraneless …

Transcription factors interact with RNA to regulate genes

O Oksuz, JE Henninger, R Warneford-Thomson… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) orchestrate the gene expression programs that define each cell's
identity. The canonical TF accomplishes this with two domains, one that binds specific DNA …

Enhancer–promoter interactions and transcription are largely maintained upon acute loss of CTCF, cohesin, WAPL or YY1

THS Hsieh, C Cattoglio, E Slobodyanyuk, AS Hansen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
It remains unclear why acute depletion of CTCF (CCCTC-binding factor) and cohesin only
marginally affects expression of most genes despite substantially perturbing three …

Chromatin organization drives the search mechanism of nuclear factors

M Mazzocca, A Loffreda, E Colombo, T Fillot… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nuclear factors rapidly scan the genome for their targets, but the role of nuclear organization
in such search is uncharted. Here we analyzed how multiple factors explore chromatin …

Transcription factor dynamics: one molecule at a time

K Wagh, DA Stavreva, A Upadhyaya… - Annual Review of Cell …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Cells must tightly regulate their gene expression programs and yet rapidly respond to acute
biochemical and biophysical cues within their environment. This information is transmitted to …

Transcription dynamics and genome organization in the mammalian nucleus: Recent advances

K Wagh, DA Stavreva, GL Hager - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Single-molecule tracking (SMT) has emerged as the dominant technology to investigate the
dynamics of chromatin-transcription factor (TF) interactions. How long a TF needs to bind to …

Order through disorder: The role of intrinsically disordered regions in transcription factor binding specificity

S Brodsky, T Jana, N Barkai - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Transcription factors (TFs) must bind at specific genomic locations to accurately regulate
gene expression. The ability of TFs to recognize specific DNA sequence motifs arises from …

Long-range gene regulation in hormone-dependent cancer

TT Tettey, L Rinaldi, GL Hager - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The human genome is organized into multiple structural layers, ranging from chromosome
territories to progressively smaller substructures, such as topologically associating domains …

The glucocorticoid receptor potentiates aldosterone-induced transcription by the mineralocorticoid receptor

TA Johnson, G Fettweis, K Wagh… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors (GR and MR, respectively) have distinct,
yet overlapping physiological and pathophysiological functions. There are indications that …