Lamina-associated domains: links with chromosome architecture, heterochromatin, and gene repression

B Van Steensel, AS Belmont - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
In metazoan cell nuclei, hundreds of large chromatin domains are in close contact with the
nuclear lamina. Such lamina-associated domains (LADs) are thought to help organize …

On TADs and LADs: spatial control over gene expression

A Gonzalez-Sandoval, SM Gasser - Trends in Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
The combinatorial action of transcription factors drives cell-type-specific gene expression
patterns. However, transcription factor binding and gene regulation occur in the context of …

Nuclear pore proteins and the control of genome functions

A Ibarra, MW Hetzer - Genes & development, 2015 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are composed of several copies of∼ 30 different proteins
called nucleoporins (Nups). NPCs penetrate the nuclear envelope (NE) and regulate the …

Nuclear pore complexes and regulation of gene expression

M Raices, MA D'Angelo - Current opinion in cell biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Nuclear pore complexes and nucleoporins have many transport-independent
functions.•Nuclear pore complexes play key roles in gene expression regulation.•In yeast …

Core components of the nuclear pore bind distinct states of chromatin and contribute to polycomb repression

A Gozalo, A Duke, Y Lan, P Pascual-Garcia… - Molecular Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Interactions between the genome and the nuclear pore complex (NPC) have been
implicated in multiple gene regulatory processes, but the underlying logic of these …

Genome-wide quantification of RNA flow across subcellular compartments reveals determinants of the mammalian transcript life cycle

BM Smalec, R Ietswaart, K Choquet, E McShane… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Dissecting the myriad regulatory mechanisms controlling eukaryotic transcripts from
production to degradation requires quantitative measurements of mRNA flow across the cell …

Metazoan nuclear pores provide a scaffold for poised genes and mediate induced enhancer-promoter contacts

P Pascual-Garcia, B Debo, JR Aleman, JA Talamas… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Nuclear pore complex components (Nups) have been implicated in transcriptional
regulation, yet what regulatory steps are controlled by metazoan Nups remains unclear. We …

Histones and histone modifications in perinuclear chromatin anchoring: from yeast to man

JC Harr, A Gonzalez‐Sandoval, SM Gasser - EMBO reports, 2016 - embopress.org
It is striking that within a eukaryotic nucleus, the genome can assume specific
spatiotemporal distributions that correlate with the cell's functional states. Cell identity itself is …

SUMO in the regulation of DNA repair and transcription at nuclear pores

SM Gasser, F Stutz - FEBS letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two related post‐translational modifications, the covalent linkage of Ubiquitin and the Small
Ubiquitin‐related MOdifier (SUMO) to lysine residues, play key roles in the regulation of both …

Nuclear mechanisms of gene expression control: pre-mRNA splicing as a life or death decision

JM Gordon, DV Phizicky, KM Neugebauer - Current opinion in genetics & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Intron retention is a widespread feature of mammalian gene expression
programs.•Retained introns are associated with post-transcriptional alternative …