Enhancer-gene specificity in development and disease

T Pachano, E Haro, A Rada-Iglesias - Development, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Enhancers control the establishment of spatiotemporal gene expression patterns throughout
development. Over the past decade, the development of new technologies has improved our …

Modulation of the high-order chromatin structure by Polycomb complexes

Y Guo, GG Wang - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The multi-subunit Polycomb Repressive Complex (PRC) 1 and 2 act, either independently or
synergistically, to maintain and enforce a repressive state of the target chromatin, thereby …

Endocrine resistance and breast cancer plasticity are controlled by CoREST

L Garcia-Martinez, AM Adams, HL Chan… - Nature structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
Resistance to cancer treatment remains a major clinical hurdle. Here, we demonstrate that
the CoREST complex is a key determinant of endocrine resistance and ER+ breast cancer …

H2AK119ub1 differentially fine-tunes gene expression by modulating canonical PRC1-and H1-dependent chromatin compaction

J Zhao, J Lan, M Wang, C Liu, Z Fang, A Song, T Zhang… - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) is a key transcriptional regulator in
development via modulating chromatin structure and catalyzing histone H2A ubiquitination …

Invention of 3Mint for feature grouping and scoring in multi-omics

M Unlu Yazici, JS Marron, B Bakir-Gungor, F Zou… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Advanced genomic and molecular profiling technologies accelerated the enlightenment of
the regulatory mechanisms behind cancer development and progression, and the targeted …

Drosophila TET acts with PRC1 to activate gene expression independently of its catalytic activity

G Gilbert, Y Renaud, C Teste, N Anglaret… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Enzymes of the ten-eleven translocation (TET) family play a key role in the regulation of
gene expression by oxidizing 5-methylcytosine (5mC), a prominent epigenetic mark in many …

Extensive long-range polycomb interactions and weak compartmentalization are hallmarks of human neuronal 3D genome

IA Pletenev, M Bazarevich, DR Zagirova… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin architecture regulates gene expression and shapes cellular identity, particularly
in neuronal cells. Specifically, polycomb group (PcG) proteins enable establishment and …

RNA fine-tunes estrogen receptor-alpha binding on low-affinity DNA motifs for transcriptional regulation

D Soota, B Saravanan, R Mann, T Kharbanda… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding with varying strengths to
DNA via their DNA-binding domain. Additionally, some TFs also interact with RNA, which …

NODULIN HOMEOBOX is required for heterochromatin homeostasis in Arabidopsis

Z Karányi, Á Mosolygó-L, O Feró, A Horváth… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Arabidopsis NODULIN HOMEOBOX (NDX) is a nuclear protein described as a
regulator of specific euchromatic genes within transcriptionally active chromosome arms …

Critical roles of polycomb repressive complexes in transcription and cancer

GJ Dong, JL Xu, YR Qi, ZQ Yuan, W Zhao - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polycomp group (PcG) proteins are members of highly conserved multiprotein complexes,
recognized as gene transcriptional repressors during development and shown to play a role …