The sound of silence: Transgene silencing in mammalian cell engineering

A Cabrera, HI Edelstein, F Glykofrydis, KS Love… - Cell Systems, 2022 - cell.com
To elucidate principles operating in native biological systems and to develop novel
biotechnologies, synthetic biology aims to build and integrate synthetic gene circuits within …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding enhancers using massively parallel reporter assays

F Inoue, N Ahituv - Genomics, 2015 - Elsevier
Enhancers control the timing, location and expression levels of their target genes.
Nucleotide variation in enhancers has been shown to lead to numerous phenotypes …

A systematic comparison reveals substantial differences in chromosomal versus episomal encoding of enhancer activity

F Inoue, M Kircher, B Martin, GM Cooper… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Candidate enhancers can be identified on the basis of chromatin modifications, the binding
of chromatin modifiers and transcription factors and cofactors, or chromatin accessibility …

Assessing sufficiency and necessity of enhancer activities for gene expression and the mechanisms of transcription activation

RR Catarino, A Stark - Genes & development, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Enhancers are important genomic regulatory elements directing cell type-specific
transcription. They assume a key role during development and disease, and their …

Functional dissection of the enhancer repertoire in human embryonic stem cells

TS Barakat, F Halbritter, M Zhang, AF Rendeiro… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Enhancers are genetic elements that regulate spatiotemporal gene expression. Enhancer
function requires transcription factor (TF) binding and correlates with histone modifications …

GATA transcription factors drive initial Xist upregulation after fertilization through direct activation of long-range enhancers

L Ravid Lustig, A Sampath Kumar, T Schwämmle… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) balances gene expression between the sexes in female
mammals. Shortly after fertilization, upregulation of Xist RNA from one X chromosome …

In pursuit of design principles of regulatory sequences

M Levo, E Segal - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Instructions for when, where and to what level each gene should be expressed are encoded
within regulatory sequences. The importance of motifs recognized by DNA-binding …

Enhancer logic and mechanics in development and disease

R Rickels, A Shilatifard - Trends in cell biology, 2018 - cell.com
Enhancers are distally located genomic cis-regulatory elements that integrate
spatiotemporal cues to coordinate gene expression in a tissue-specific manner during …

Enhancers and super-enhancers have an equivalent regulatory role in embryonic stem cells through regulation of single or multiple genes

SD Moorthy, S Davidson, VM Shchuka… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Transcriptional enhancers are critical for maintaining cell-type–specific gene expression and
driving cell fate changes during development. Highly transcribed genes are often associated …

Gene regulatory elements, major drivers of human disease

S Chatterjee, N Ahituv - Annual review of genomics and human …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Gene expression changes, the driving forces for cellular diversity in multicellular organisms,
are regulated by a diverse set of gene regulatory elements that direct transcription in specific …