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 …

Cohesin mutations in acute myeloid leukemia

A Boucher, J Murray, S Rao - Leukemia, 2024 - nature.com
The cohesin complex, encoded by SMC3, SMC1A, RAD21, and STAG2, is a critical
regulator of DNA-looping and gene expression. Over a decade has passed since recurrent …

[HTML][HTML] How a disordered linker in the Polycomb protein Polyhomeotic tunes phase separation and oligomerization

TM Gemeinhardt, RM Regy, AJ Mendiola… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Polycomb Group (PcG) complex PRC1 represses transcription, forms condensates in
cells, and modifies chromatin architecture. These processes are connected through the …

De Novo Polycomb Recruitment and Repressive Domain Formation

IA Hernández-Romero, VJ Valdes - Epigenomes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Every cell of an organism shares the same genome; even so, each cellular lineage owns a
different transcriptome and proteome. The Polycomb group proteins (PcG) are essential …

High-throughput Oligopaint screen identifies druggable regulators of genome folding

DS Park, SC Nguyen, R Isenhart, PP Shah, W Kim… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Although the molecular rules governing genome organization are being quickly elucidated,
relatively few proteins regulating this process have been identified. To address this gap, we …