Understanding nucleosome dynamics and their links to gene expression and DNA replication

WKM Lai, BF Pugh - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Advances in genomics technology have provided the means to probe myriad chromatin
interactions at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. This has led to a profound …

Chromatin remodellers as therapeutic targets

HA Malone, CWM Roberts - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Large-scale cancer genome sequencing studies have revealed that chromatin regulators
are frequently mutated in cancer. In particular, more than 20% of cancers harbour mutations …

The SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complex is required for maintenance of lineage specific enhancers

BH Alver, KH Kim, P Lu, X Wang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Genes encoding subunits of SWI/SNF (BAF) chromatin remodelling complexes are
collectively altered in over 20% of human malignancies, but the mechanisms by which these …

Chemical profiling of DNA G-quadruplex-interacting proteins in live cells

X Zhang, J Spiegel, S Martínez Cuesta, S Adhikari… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
DNA–protein interactions regulate critical biological processes. Identifying proteins that bind
to specific, functional genomic loci is essential to understand the underlying regulatory …

The long noncoding RNA lncTCF7 promotes self-renewal of human liver cancer stem cells through activation of Wnt signaling

Y Wang, L He, Y Du, P Zhu, G Huang, J Luo, X Yan… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most prevalent subtype of liver cancer, and it is
characterized by a high rate of recurrence and heterogeneity. Liver cancer stem cells …

Activation of HIV transcription with short-course vorinostat in HIV-infected patients on suppressive antiretroviral therapy

JH Elliott, F Wightman, A Solomon, K Ghneim… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) persistence in latently infected resting memory CD4+
T-cells is the major barrier to HIV cure. Cellular histone deacetylases (HDACs) are important …

ARID1A loss impairs enhancer-mediated gene regulation and drives colon cancer in mice

R Mathur, BH Alver, AK San Roman, BG Wilson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Genes encoding subunits of SWI/SNF (BAF) chromatin-remodeling complexes are
collectively mutated in∼ 20% of all human cancers,. Although ARID1A is the most frequent …

SMARCB1-mediated SWI/SNF complex function is essential for enhancer regulation

X Wang, RS Lee, BH Alver, JR Haswell, S Wang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
SMARCB1 (also known as SNF5, INI1, and BAF47), a core subunit of the SWI/SNF (BAF)
chromatin-remodeling complex,, is inactivated in nearly all pediatric rhabdoid tumors …

Chromatin remodeling BAF (SWI/SNF) complexes in neural development and disorders

G Sokpor, Y Xie, J Rosenbusch, T Tuoc - Frontiers in molecular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The ATP-dependent BRG1/BRM associated factor (BAF) chromatin remodeling complexes
are crucial in regulating gene expression by controlling chromatin dynamics. Over the last …

Vulnerabilities of mutant SWI/SNF complexes in cancer

KC Helming, X Wang, CWM Roberts - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Cancer genome sequencing efforts have revealed the novel theme that chromatin modifiers
are frequently mutated across a wide spectrum of cancers. Mutations in genes encoding …