CRISPR technologies for genome, epigenome and transcriptome editing

L Villiger, J Joung, L Koblan, J Weissman… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Our ability to edit genomes lags behind our capacity to sequence them, but the growing
understanding of CRISPR biology and its application to genome, epigenome and …

Compendium of human transcription factor effector domains

LF Soto, Z Li, CS Santoso, A Berenson, I Ho, VX Shen… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to DNA sequences and
modulating transcriptional activity through their effector domains. Despite the central role of …

Transcription factors interact with RNA to regulate genes

O Oksuz, JE Henninger, R Warneford-Thomson… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) orchestrate the gene expression programs that define each cell's
identity. The canonical TF accomplishes this with two domains, one that binds specific DNA …

Large-scale mapping and mutagenesis of human transcriptional effector domains

N DelRosso, J Tycko, P Suzuki, C Andrews, Aradhana… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Human gene expression is regulated by more than 2,000 transcription factors and chromatin
regulators,. Effector domains within these proteins can activate or repress transcription …

An activity-specificity trade-off encoded in human transcription factors

J Naderi, AP Magalhaes, G Kibar, G Stik, Y Zhang… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) control specificity and activity of gene transcription, but whether a
relationship between these two features exists is unclear. Here we provide evidence for an …

Simple biochemical features underlie transcriptional activation domain diversity and dynamic, fuzzy binding to Mediator

AL Sanborn, BT Yeh, JT Feigerle, CV Hao… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Gene activator proteins comprise distinct DNA-binding and transcriptional activation
domains (ADs). Because few ADs have been described, we tested domains tiling all yeast …

Identification and functional characterization of transcriptional activators in human cells

N Alerasool, H Leng, ZY Lin, AC Gingras, M Taipale - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Transcription is orchestrated by thousands of transcription factors (TFs) and chromatin-
associated proteins, but how these are causally connected to transcriptional activation is …

High-throughput discovery and characterization of human transcriptional effectors

J Tycko, N DelRosso, GT Hess, A Banerjee, A Mukund… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Thousands of proteins localize to the nucleus; however, it remains unclear which contain
transcriptional effectors. Here, we develop HT-recruit, a pooled assay where protein libraries …

Multifunctional intrinsically disordered regions in transcription factors

M Már, K Nitsenko… - Chemistry–A European …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Eukaryotic transcription factors (TFs) are the final integrators of a complex molecular
feedback mechanism that interfaces with the genome, consolidating information for …

Development of compact transcriptional effectors using high-throughput measurements in diverse contexts

J Tycko, MV Van, Aradhana, N DelRosso, H Ye… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transcriptional effectors are protein domains known to activate or repress gene expression;
however, a systematic understanding of which effector domains regulate transcription across …