TGF-β orchestrates fibrogenic and developmental EMTs via the RAS effector RREB1

J Su, SM Morgani, CJ David, Q Wang, EE Er… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions (EMTs) are phenotypic plasticity processes that confer
migratory and invasive properties to epithelial cells during development, wound-healing …

YAP regulates cell mechanics by controlling focal adhesion assembly

G Nardone, J Oliver-De La Cruz, J Vrbsky… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Hippo effectors YAP/TAZ act as on–off mechanosensing switches by sensing modifications
in extracellular matrix (ECM) composition and mechanics. The regulation of their activity has …

iRegulon: from a gene list to a gene regulatory network using large motif and track collections

R Janky, A Verfaillie, H Imrichová… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Identifying master regulators of biological processes and mapping their downstream gene
networks are key challenges in systems biology. We developed a computational method …

[HTML][HTML] Commensal segmented filamentous bacteria-derived retinoic acid primes host defense to intestinal infection

V Woo, EM Eshleman, S Hashimoto-Hill, J Whitt, S Wu… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
Interactions between the microbiota and mammalian host are essential for defense against
infection, but the microbial-derived cues that mediate this relationship remain unclear. Here …

A survey of motif finding Web tools for detecting binding site motifs in ChIP-Seq data

NTL Tran, CH Huang - Biology direct, 2014 - Springer
ChIP-Seq (chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing) has provided the advantage for
finding motifs as ChIP-Seq experiments narrow down the motif finding to binding site …

Foxn1 regulates key target genes essential for T cell development in postnatal thymic epithelial cells

S Žuklys, A Handel, S Zhanybekova, F Govani… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Thymic epithelial cell differentiation, growth and function depend on the expression of the
transcription factor Foxn1; however, its target genes have never been physically identified …

Re-programing chromatin with a bifunctional LSD1/HDAC inhibitor induces therapeutic differentiation in DIPG

JN Anastas, BM Zee, JH Kalin, M Kim, R Guo… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary H3K27M mutations resulting in epigenetic dysfunction are frequently observed in
diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPGs), an incurable pediatric cancer. We conduct a …

Motif-based analysis of large nucleotide data sets using MEME-ChIP

W Ma, WS Noble, TL Bailey - Nature protocols, 2014 - nature.com
MEME-ChIP is a web-based tool for analyzing motifs in large DNA or RNA data sets. It can
analyze peak regions identified by ChIP-seq, cross-linking sites identified by CLIP-seq and …

[HTML][HTML] CHD1 loss alters AR binding at lineage-specific enhancers and modulates distinct transcriptional programs to drive prostate tumorigenesis

MA Augello, D Liu, LD Deonarine, BD Robinson… - Cancer Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Deletion of the gene encoding the chromatin remodeler CHD1 is among the most common
alterations in prostate cancer (PCa); however, the tumor-suppressive functions of CHD1 and …

Genome-wide plasma DNA methylation features of metastatic prostate cancer

A Wu, P Cremaschi, D Wetterskog… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Tumor DNA circulates in the plasma of cancer patients admixed with DNA from
noncancerous cells. The genomic landscape of plasma DNA has been characterized in …