Pioneer factors as master regulators of the epigenome and cell fate

A Balsalobre, J Drouin - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Pioneer factors are transcription factors with the unique ability to initiate opening of closed
chromatin. The stability of cell identity relies on robust mechanisms that maintain the …

Pioneer transcription factors initiating gene network changes

KS Zaret - Annual review of genetics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Pioneer transcription factors have the intrinsic biochemical ability to scan partial DNA
sequence motifs that are exposed on the surface of a nucleosome and thus access silent …

Cell-type-directed design of synthetic enhancers

II Taskiran, KI Spanier, H Dickmänken, N Kempynck… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Transcriptional enhancers act as docking stations for combinations of transcription factors
and thereby regulate spatiotemporal activation of their target genes. It has been a long …

Chromatin accessibility profiling methods

L Minnoye, GK Marinov, T Krausgruber, L Pan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromatin accessibility, or the physical access to chromatinized DNA, is a widely studied
characteristic of the eukaryotic genome. As active regulatory DNA elements are generally …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell spatial multi-omics and deep learning dissect enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks in liver zonation

C Bravo Gonzalez-Blas, I Matetovici, H Hillen… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
In the mammalian liver, hepatocytes exhibit diverse metabolic and functional profiles based
on their location within the liver lobule. However, it is unclear whether this spatial variation …

Chromatin accessibility in the Drosophila embryo is determined by transcription factor pioneering and enhancer activation

KJ Brennan, M Weilert, S Krueger, A Pampari, H Liu… - Developmental cell, 2023 - cell.com
Chromatin accessibility is integral to the process by which transcription factors (TFs) read out
cis-regulatory DNA sequences, but it is difficult to differentiate between TFs that drive …

[HTML][HTML] Hypoxia, partial EMT and collective migration: Emerging culprits in metastasis

K Saxena, MK Jolly, K Balamurugan - Translational oncology, 2020 - Elsevier
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular biological process involved in
migration of primary cancer cells to secondary sites facilitating metastasis. Besides, EMT …

Inference of transcription factor binding from cell-free DNA enables tumor subtype prediction and early detection

P Ulz, S Perakis, Q Zhou, T Moser, J Belic… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Deregulation of transcription factors (TFs) is an important driver of tumorigenesis, but non-
invasive assays for assessing transcription factor activity are lacking. Here we develop and …

Decoding gene regulation in the fly brain

J Janssens, S Aibar, II Taskiran, JN Ismail, AE Gomez… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The Drosophila brain is a frequently used model in neuroscience. Single-cell transcriptome
analysis,,,,–, three-dimensional morphological classification and electron microscopy …

[HTML][HTML] Seven myths of how transcription factors read the cis-regulatory code

J Zeitlinger - Current opinion in systems biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Genomics data are now being generated at large quantities, of exquisite high resolution and
from single cells. They offer a unique opportunity to develop powerful machine learning …