CTCF and cohesin in genome folding and transcriptional gene regulation

M Merkenschlager, EP Nora - Annual review of genomics and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Genome function, replication, integrity, and propagation rely on the dynamic structural
organization of chromosomes during the cell cycle. Genome folding in interphase provides …

CTCF shapes chromatin structure and gene expression in health and disease

B Dehingia, M Milewska, M Janowski, A Pękowska - EMBO reports, 2022 - embopress.org
CCCTC‐binding factor (CTCF) is an eleven zinc finger (ZF), multivalent transcriptional
regulator, that recognizes numerous motifs thanks to the deployment of distinct combinations …

WAPL maintains a cohesin loading cycle to preserve cell-type-specific distal gene regulation

NQ Liu, M Maresca, T van den Brand, L Braccioli… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The cohesin complex has an essential role in maintaining genome organization. However,
its role in gene regulation remains largely unresolved. Here we report that the cohesin …

Cohesin-dependence of neuronal gene expression relates to chromatin loop length

L Calderon, FD Weiss, JA Beagan, MS Oliveira… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cohesin and CTCF are major drivers of 3D genome organization, but their role in neurons is
still emerging. Here, we show a prominent role for cohesin in the expression of genes that …

Control of inducible gene expression links cohesin to hematopoietic progenitor self-renewal and differentiation

S Cuartero, FD Weiss, G Dharmalingam, Y Guo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cohesin is important for 3D genome organization. Nevertheless, even the complete removal
of cohesin has surprisingly little impact on steady-state gene transcription and enhancer …

An overview of genome organization and how we got there: from FISH to Hi-C

J Fraser, I Williamson, WA Bickmore… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
In humans, nearly two meters of genomic material must be folded to fit inside each
micrometer-scale cell nucleus while remaining accessible for gene transcription, DNA …

Cycling through developmental decisions: how cell cycle dynamics control pluripotency, differentiation and reprogramming

A Soufi, S Dalton - Development, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
A strong connection exists between the cell cycle and mechanisms required for executing
cell fate decisions in a wide-range of developmental contexts. Terminal differentiation is …

Emerging themes in cohesin cancer biology

T Waldman - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Mutations of the cohesin complex in human cancer were first discovered~ 10 years ago.
Since then, researchers worldwide have demonstrated that cohesin is among the most …

Cohesin couples transcriptional bursting probabilities of inducible enhancers and promoters

I Robles-Rebollo, S Cuartero… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Innate immune responses rely on inducible gene expression programmes which, in contrast
to steady-state transcription, are highly dependent on cohesin. Here we address …

Full circle: a brief history of cohesin and the regulation of gene expression

JA Horsfield - The FEBS journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The cohesin complex has a range of crucial functions in the cell. Cohesin is essential for
mediating chromatid cohesion during mitosis, for repair of double‐strand DNA breaks, and …