COMPASS and SWI/SNF complexes in development and disease

BK Cenik, A Shilatifard - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Trithorax group (TrxG) of proteins is a large family of epigenetic regulators that
form multiprotein complexes to counteract repressive developmental gene expression …

Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes and cancer: Mechanistic insights gained from human genomics

C Kadoch, GR Crabtree - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
Over the past 4 years, nearly 100 exome sequencing studies have revealed the high
frequency of mutations in the genes encoding the subunits of ATP-dependent chromatin …

Modular organization and assembly of SWI/SNF family chromatin remodeling complexes

N Mashtalir, AR D'Avino, BC Michel, J Luo, J Pan… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Mammalian SWI/SNF (mSWI/SNF) ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling
complexes are multi-subunit molecular machines that play vital roles in regulating genomic …

A non-canonical SWI/SNF complex is a synthetic lethal target in cancers driven by BAF complex perturbation

BC Michel, AR D'Avino, SH Cassel, N Mashtalir… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complexes exist in three distinct, final-form
assemblies: canonical BAF (cBAF), PBAF and a newly characterized non-canonical complex …

Super-enhancers in the control of cell identity and disease

D Hnisz, BJ Abraham, TI Lee, A Lau, V Saint-André… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Super-enhancers are large clusters of transcriptional enhancers that drive expression of
genes that define cell identity. Improved understanding of the roles that super-enhancers …

Proteomic and bioinformatic analysis of mammalian SWI/SNF complexes identifies extensive roles in human malignancy

C Kadoch, DC Hargreaves, C Hodges, L Elias, L Ho… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Subunits of mammalian SWI/SNF (mSWI/SNF or BAF) complexes have recently been
implicated as tumor suppressors in human malignancies. To understand the full extent of …

A structural model of the endogenous human BAF complex informs disease mechanisms

N Mashtalir, H Suzuki, DP Farrell, A Sankar, J Luo… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Mammalian SWI/SNF complexes are ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes that
regulate genomic architecture. Here, we present a structural model of the endogenously …

The many roles of BAF (mSWI/SNF) and PBAF complexes in cancer

C Hodges, JG Kirkland… - Cold Spring …, 2016 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
During the last decade, a host of epigenetic mechanisms were found to contribute to cancer
and other human diseases. Several genomic studies have revealed that∼ 20% of …

Chromatin modifiers and remodellers: regulators of cellular differentiation

T Chen, SYR Dent - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Cellular differentiation is, by definition, epigenetic. Genome-wide profiling of pluripotent cells
and differentiated cells suggests global chromatin remodelling during differentiation, which …

A CRISPR/Cas9-Engineered ARID1A-Deficient Human Gastric Cancer Organoid Model Reveals Essential and Nonessential Modes of Oncogenic Transformation

YH Lo, KS Kolahi, Y Du, CY Chang, A Krokhotin, A Nair… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Mutations in ARID1A rank among the most common molecular aberrations in human cancer.
However, oncogenic consequences of ARID1A mutation in human cells remain poorly …