3D chromatin architecture and transcription regulation in cancer

S Deng, Y Feng, S Pauklin - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Chromatin has distinct three-dimensional (3D) architectures important in key biological
processes, such as cell cycle, replication, differentiation, and transcription regulation. In turn …

Deciphering Hi-C: from 3D genome to function

S Kong, Y Zhang - Cell biology and toxicology, 2019 - Springer
Hi-C is a commonly used technology in 3D genomics which can depict global chromatin
interactions across eukaryotic genome. Integrating with different datasets, it can also be …

Pervasive chromatin-RNA binding protein interactions enable RNA-based regulation of transcription

R Xiao, JY Chen, Z Liang, D Luo, G Chen, ZJ Lu… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Increasing evidence suggests that transcriptional control and chromatin activities at large
involve regulatory RNAs, which likely enlist specific RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). Although …

DeepLoop robustly maps chromatin interactions from sparse allele-resolved or single-cell Hi-C data at kilobase resolution

S Zhang, D Plummer, L Lu, J Cui, W Xu, M Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mapping chromatin loops from noisy Hi-C heatmaps remains a major challenge. Here we
present DeepLoop, which performs rigorous bias correction followed by deep-learning …

Phase separation of OCT4 controls TAD reorganization to promote cell fate transitions

J Wang, H Yu, Q Ma, P Zeng, D Wu, Y Hou, X Liu, L Jia… - Cell Stem Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Topological-associated domains (TADs) are thought to be relatively stable across cell types,
although some TAD reorganization has been observed during cellular differentiation …

Spatial chromosome folding and active transcription drive DNA fragility and formation of oncogenic MLL translocations

HJ Gothe, BAM Bouwman, EG Gusmao, R Piccinno… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
How spatial chromosome organization influences genome integrity is still poorly understood.
Here, we show that DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) mediated by topoisomerase 2 (TOP2) …

Genome-wide analyses of chromatin interactions after the loss of Pol I, Pol II, and Pol III

Y Jiang, J Huang, K Lun, B Li, H Zheng, Y Li, R Zhou… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background The relationship between transcription and the 3D chromatin structure is
debated. Multiple studies have shown that transcription affects global Cohesin binding and …

Transcription elongation machinery is a druggable dependency and potentiates immunotherapy in glioblastoma stem cells

Z Qiu, L Zhao, JZ Shen, Z Liang, Q Wu, K Yang, L Min… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most lethal primary brain cancer characterized by therapeutic
resistance, which is promoted by GBM stem cells (GSC). Here, we interrogated gene …

DeepTACT: predicting 3D chromatin contacts via bootstrapping deep learning

W Li, WH Wong, R Jiang - Nucleic acids research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Interactions between regulatory elements are of crucial importance for the understanding of
transcriptional regulation and the interpretation of disease mechanisms. Hi-C technique has …

Upregulation of Superenhancer‐driven LncRNA FASRL by USF1 promotes de novo fatty acid biosynthesis to exacerbate hepatocellular carcinoma

JY Peng, DK Cai, RL Zeng, CY Zhang, GC Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Superenhancers drive abnormal gene expression in tumors and promote malignancy.
However, the relationship between superenhancer‐associated long noncoding RNA …