Chromatin accessibility: methods, mechanisms, and biological insights

AR Mansisidor, VI Risca - Nucleus, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Access to DNA is a prerequisite to the execution of essential cellular processes that include
transcription, replication, chromosomal segregation, and DNA repair. How the proteins that …

Functional characterization of Alzheimer's disease genetic variants in microglia

X Yang, J Wen, H Yang, IR Jones, X Zhu, W Liu, B Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs) in microglia demonstrate the most substantial
enrichment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) heritability compared to other brain cell types …

Pioneer activity distinguishes activating from non‐activating SOX2 binding sites

M Maresca, T van den Brand, H Li, H Teunissen… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Genome‐wide transcriptional activity involves the binding of many transcription factors (TFs)
to thousands of sites in the genome. Pioneer TFs are a class of TFs that maintain open …

Mechanoepigenetic regulation of extracellular matrix homeostasis via Yap and Taz

DL Jones, GF Hallström, X Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Cells integrate mechanical cues to direct fate specification to maintain tissue function and
homeostasis. While disruption of these cues is known to lead to aberrant cell behavior and …

YY1 binding is a gene-intrinsic barrier to Xist-mediated gene silencing

JS Bowness, M Almeida, TB Nesterova… - EMBO reports, 2024 - embopress.org
X chromosome inactivation (XCI) in mammals is mediated by Xist RNA which functions in cis
to silence genes on a single X chromosome in XX female cells, thereby equalising levels of …

A single-cell multimodal view on gene regulatory network inference from transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility data

JU Loers, V Vermeirssen - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic gene regulation is a combinatorial, dynamic, and quantitative process that plays
a vital role in development and disease and can be modeled at a systems level in gene …

Fluctuations in chromatin state at regulatory loci occur spontaneously under relaxed selection and are associated with epigenetically inherited variation in C. elegans …

R Wilson, M Le Bourgeois, M Perez, P Sarkies - PLoS Genetics, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Some epigenetic information can be transmitted between generations without changes in
the underlying DNA sequence. Changes in epigenetic regulators, termed epimutations, can …

CEBPA restricts alveolar type 2 cell plasticity during development and injury-repair

D Hassan, J Chen - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Cell plasticity theoretically extends to all possible cell types, but naturally decreases as cells
differentiate, whereas injury-repair re-engages the developmental plasticity. Here we show …

Single-cell sequencing analysis within biologically relevant dimensions

R Kousnetsov, J Bourque, A Surnov, I Fallahee… - Cell Systems, 2024 - cell.com
The currently predominant approach to transcriptomic and epigenomic single-cell analysis
depends on a rigid perspective constrained by reduced dimensions and algorithmically …

Quantitative analysis of cis-regulatory elements in transcription with KAS-ATAC-seq

R Lyu, Y Gao, T Wu, C Ye, P Wang, C He - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) are pivotal in orchestrating gene expression throughout
diverse biological systems. Accurate identification and in-depth characterization of functional …