Transcription–replication conflicts as a source of genome instability

L Goehring, TT Huang, DJ Smith - Annual review of genetics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Transcription and replication both require large macromolecular complexes to act on a DNA
template, yet these machineries cannot simultaneously act on the same DNA sequence …

Nuclear compartments: an incomplete primer to nuclear compartments, bodies, and genome organization relative to nuclear architecture

AS Belmont - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2022 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
This work reviews nuclear compartments, defined broadly to include distinct nuclear
structures, bodies, and chromosome domains. It first summarizes original cytological …

Real-time single-molecule imaging of transcriptional regulatory networks in living cells

DW Hwang, A Maekiniemi, RH Singer… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene regulatory networks drive the specific transcriptional programmes responsible for the
diversification of cell types during the development of multicellular organisms. Although our …

Nucleoplasmic lamin C rapidly accumulates at sites of nuclear envelope rupture with BAF and cGAS

Y Kono, SA Adam, Y Sato, KL Reddy, Y Zheng… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - rupress.org
In mammalian cell nuclei, the nuclear lamina (NL) underlies the nuclear envelope (NE) to
maintain nuclear structure. The nuclear lamins, the major structural components of the NL …

Live-cell imaging uncovers the relationship between histone acetylation, transcription initiation, and nucleosome mobility

MN Saxton, T Morisaki, D Krapf, H Kimura… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Histone acetylation and RNA polymerase II phosphorylation are associated with
transcriptionally active chromatin, but their spatiotemporal relationship in live cells remains …

STREAMING-tag system reveals spatiotemporal relationships between transcriptional regulatory factors and transcriptional activity

H Ohishi, S Shimada, S Uchino, J Li, Y Sato… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transcription is a dynamic process. To detect the dynamic relationship among protein
clusters of RNA polymerase II and coactivators, gene loci, and transcriptional activity, we …

Imaging transcription elongation dynamics by new technologies unveils the organization of initiation and elongation in transcription factories

H Kimura, Y Sato - Current opinion in cell biology, 2022 - Elsevier
In mammalian cells, RNA polymerase II (RNAP2)-mediated transcription occurs in numerous
foci in the nucleus. Transcription foci detected by RNAP2 activity have often been called …

[HTML][HTML] Repetitive CREB-DNA interactions at gene loci predetermined by CBP induce activity-dependent gene expression in human cortical neurons

Y Atsumi, R Iwata, H Kimura, P Vanderhaeghen… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Neuronal activity-dependent transcription plays a key role in plasticity and pathology in the
brain. An intriguing question is how neuronal activity controls gene expression via …

Transcriptional condensates and phase separation: condensing information across scales and mechanisms

J Demmerle, S Hao, D Cai - Nucleus, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Transcription is the fundamental process of gene expression, which in eukaryotes occurs
within the complex physicochemical environment of the nucleus. Decades of research have …

Chromatin expansion microscopy reveals nanoscale organization of transcription and chromatin

ME Pownall, L Miao, CE Vejnar, O M'Saad, A Sherrard… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Nanoscale chromatin organization regulates gene expression. Although chromatin is
notably reprogrammed during zygotic genome activation (ZGA), the organization of …