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 …

Enhancer RNAs are an important regulatory layer of the epigenome

V Sartorelli, SM Lauberth - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2020 - nature.com
Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) direct a remarkable number of diverse functions in development
and disease through their regulation of transcription, RNA processing and translation …

Long noncoding RNAs: molecular modalities to organismal functions

JL Rinn, HY Chang - Annual review of biochemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We have known for decades that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) can play essential
functions across most forms of life. The maintenance of chromosome length requires an …

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 …

Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression

MS Hill, P Vande Zande, PJ Wittkopp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Heritable variation in gene expression is common within and between species. This
variation arises from mutations that alter the form or function of molecular gene regulatory …

Structural insights into preinitiation complex assembly on core promoters

X Chen, Y Qi, Z Wu, X Wang, J Li, D Zhao, H Hou, Y Li… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION RNA polymerase II (Pol II)–mediated transcription initiation requires
assembly of a preinitiation complex (PIC), during which the 14-subunit transcription factor IID …

Census and evaluation of p53 target genes

M Fischer - Oncogene, 2017 - nature.com
The tumor suppressor p53 functions primarily as a transcription factor. Mutation of the TP53
gene alters its response pathway, and is central to the development of many cancers. The …

Intragenic DNA methylation prevents spurious transcription initiation

F Neri, S Rapelli, A Krepelova, D Incarnato, C Parlato… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
In mammals, DNA methylation occurs mainly at CpG dinucleotides. Methylation of the
promoter suppresses gene expression, but the functional role of gene-body DNA …

MicroRNAs and complex diseases: from experimental results to computational models

X Chen, D Xie, Q Zhao, ZH You - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Plenty of microRNAs (miRNAs) were discovered at a rapid pace in plants, green algae,
viruses and animals. As one of the most important components in the cell, miRNAs play a …

Sequence determinants of human gene regulatory elements

B Sahu, T Hartonen, P Pihlajamaa, B Wei, K Dave… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
DNA can determine where and when genes are expressed, but the full set of sequence
determinants that control gene expression is unknown. Here, we measured the …