Approaches to characterize chromatin subcompartment organization in the cell nucleus

R Weinmann, L Frank, K Rippe - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanism of self-organization of chromatin subcompartments on the 0.1–1 μm scale
and their impact on genome-associated activities has long been a key aspect of research on …

Revisiting the model for coactivator recruitment: Med15 can select its target sites independent of promoter-bound transcription factors

V Mindel, S Brodsky, H Yung, W Manadre… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Activation domains (ADs) within transcription factors (TFs) induce gene expression by
recruiting coactivators such as the Mediator complex. Coactivators lack DNA binding …

Molecular determinants of condensate composition

AS Holehouse, S Alberti - Molecular Cell, 2025 - cell.com
Cells use membraneless compartments to organize their interiors, and recent research has
begun to uncover the molecular principles underlying their assembly. Here, we explore how …

Sequence-and chemical specificity define the functional landscape of intrinsically disordered regions

I Langstein-Skora, A Schmid, F Huth, D Shabani… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs) pervasively engage in essential molecular
functions, yet they are often poorly conserved as assessed by sequence alignment. To …

Disordered sequences of transcription factors regulate genomic binding by integrating diverse sequence grammars and interaction types

B Hurieva, DK Kumar, R Morag, O Lupo… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) guide transcription factors (TFs) to their genomic
binding sites, raising the question of how structure-lacking regions encode for complex …

Intrinsically disordered regions of the Msn2 transcription factor encode multiple functions using interwoven sequence grammars

V Mindel, S Brodsky, A Cohen, W Manadre… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are abundant in eukaryotic proteins, but their
sequence-function relationship remains poorly understood. IDRs of transcription factors …

Deciphering the dynamic code: DNA recognition by transcription factors in the ever-changing genome

YM Yao, I Miodownik, MP O'Hagan, M Jbara, A Afek - Transcription, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Transcription factors (TFs) intricately navigate the vast genomic landscape to locate and
bind specific DNA sequences for the regulation of gene expression programs. These …

[HTML][HTML] Arid5a uses disordered extensions of its core ARID domain for distinct DNA-and RNA-recognition and gene regulation

J von Ehr, L Oberstrass, E Yazgan… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
AT-rich interacting domain (ARID)-containing proteins, Arids, are a heterogeneous DNA-
binding protein family involved in transcription regulation and chromatin processing. For the …

Grammar rules and exceptions for the language of transcriptional activation domains

DG Cooper, TY Erkina, BK Broyles, CA Class… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Transcriptional activation domains (ADs) of gene activators have remained enigmatic for
decades as short, extremely variable, and structurally disordered sequences. Using a …

[PDF][PDF] Structural Biology

R Weinmann, L Frank, K Rippe - Current …, 2023 - malone.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de
The mechanism of self-organization of chromatin subcompartments on the 0.1–1 μm scale
and their impact on genomeassociated activities has long been a key aspect of research on …