The molecular hallmarks of the serrated pathway in colorectal cancer

FDE De Palma, V D'argenio, J Pol, G Kroemer… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide. It includes different
subtypes that differ in their clinical and prognostic features. In the past decade, in addition to …

Structural variants drive context-dependent oncogene activation in cancer

Z Xu, DS Lee, S Chandran, VT Le, R Bump, J Yasis… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Higher-order chromatin structure is important for the regulation of genes by distal regulatory
sequences,. Structural variants (SVs) that alter three-dimensional (3D) genome organization …

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 …

Transcription factor AP4 mediates cell fate decisions: to divide, age, or die

MMK Wong, SM Joyson, H Hermeking, SK Chiu - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Here, we review the literature on Activating Enhancer-Binding Protein 4
(AP4)/transcription factor AP4 (TFAP4) function and regulation and its role in cancer …

CBX2 shapes chromatin accessibility promoting AML via p38 MAPK signaling pathway

N Del Gaudio, A Di Costanzo, NQ Liu, L Conte… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background The dynamic epigenome and proteins specialized in the interpretation of
epigenetic marks critically contribute to leukemic pathogenesis but also offer alternative …

An osteoporosis risk SNP at 1p36. 12 acts as an allele-specific enhancer to modulate LINC00339 expression via long-range loop formation

XF Chen, DL Zhu, M Yang, WX Hu, YY Duan… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have reproducibly associated variants within
intergenic regions of 1p36. 12 locus with osteoporosis, but the functional roles underlying …

[PDF][PDF] DiseaseEnhancer: a resource of human disease-associated enhancer catalog

G Zhang, J Shi, S Zhu, Y Lan, L Xu, H Yuan… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Large-scale sequencing studies discovered substantial genetic variants occurring in
enhancers which regulate genes via long range chromatin interactions. Importantly, such …

Retrotransposon insertions can initiate colorectal cancer and are associated with poor survival

T Cajuso, P Sulo, T Tanskanen, R Katainen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genomic instability pathways in colorectal cancer (CRC) have been extensively studied, but
the role of retrotransposition in colorectal carcinogenesis remains poorly understood …

Rapid depletion of CTCF and cohesin proteins reveals dynamic features of chromosome architecture

NQ Liu, M Magnitov, M Schijns, T van Schaik… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The interphase genome is mainly shaped by cohesin-mediated loop extrusion and cohesin-
independent compartmentalization. Extrusion is a dynamic process of cohesin loading, loop …

CTCF and cohesin promote focal detachment of DNA from the nuclear lamina

T van Schaik, NQ Liu, SG Manzo, D Peric-Hupkes… - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Lamina-associated domains (LADs) are large genomic regions that
are positioned at the nuclear lamina. It has remained largely unclear what drives the …