Pioneer factors—key regulators of chromatin and gene expression

ML Bulyk, J Drouin, MM Harrison, J Taipale… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Pioneer factors are a group of transcription factors with important roles in gene regulation
during development. Their unique ability to bind to compacted chromatin, promoting its …

CUT&Tag for efficient epigenomic profiling of small samples and single cells

HS Kaya-Okur, SJ Wu, CA Codomo, ES Pledger… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Many chromatin features play critical roles in regulating gene expression. A complete
understanding of gene regulation will require the mapping of specific chromatin features in …

Efficient low-cost chromatin profiling with CUT&Tag

HS Kaya-Okur, DH Janssens, JG Henikoff, K Ahmad… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract We recently introduced Cleavage Under Targets & Tagmentation (CUT&Tag), an
epigenomic profiling strategy in which antibodies are bound to chromatin proteins in situ in …

Targeted in situ genome-wide profiling with high efficiency for low cell numbers

PJ Skene, JG Henikoff, S Henikoff - Nature protocols, 2018 - nature.com
Cleavage under targets and release using nuclease (CUT&RUN) is an epigenomic profiling
strategy in which antibody-targeted controlled cleavage by micrococcal nuclease releases …

Improved CUT&RUN chromatin profiling tools

MP Meers, TD Bryson, JG Henikoff, S Henikoff - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Previously, we described a novel alternative to chromatin immunoprecipitation, CUT&RUN,
in which unfixed permeabilized cells are incubated with antibody, followed by binding of a …

An efficient targeted nuclease strategy for high-resolution mapping of DNA binding sites

PJ Skene, S Henikoff - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
We describe Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease (CUT&RUN), a
chromatin profiling strategy in which antibody-targeted controlled cleavage by micrococcal …

Phytochromes function as thermosensors in Arabidopsis

JH Jung, M Domijan, C Klose, S Biswas, D Ezer, M Gao… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Plants are responsive to temperature, and some species can distinguish differences of 1° C.
In Arabidopsis, warmer temperature accelerates flowering and increases elongation growth …

Necroptosis microenvironment directs lineage commitment in liver cancer

M Seehawer, F Heinzmann, L D'artista, J Harbig… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Primary liver cancer represents a major health problem. It comprises hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC), which differ markedly with …

Epigenomes in cardiovascular disease

M Rosa-Garrido, DJ Chapski, TM Vondriska - Circulation research, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
If unifying principles could be revealed for how the same genome encodes different
eukaryotic cells and for how genetic variability and environmental input are integrated to …

CDK12 regulates DNA repair genes by suppressing intronic polyadenylation

SJ Dubbury, PL Boutz, PA Sharp - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Mutations that attenuate homologous recombination (HR)-mediated repair promote
tumorigenesis and sensitize cells to chemotherapeutics that cause replication fork collapse …