Profiling the epigenome using long-read sequencing

T Liu, A Conesa - Nature Genetics, 2025 - nature.com
The advent of single-molecule, long-read sequencing (LRS) technologies by Oxford
Nanopore Technologies and Pacific Biosciences has revolutionized genomics …

Resolving the chromatin impact of mosaic variants with targeted Fiber-seq

SC Bohaczuk, ZJ Amador, C Li, BJ Mallory… - Genome …, 2024 - genome.cshlp.org
Accurately quantifying the functional consequences of noncoding mosaic variants requires
the pairing of DNA sequences with both accessible and closed chromatin architectures …

Synchronized long-read genome, methylome, epigenome and transcriptome profiling resolve a Mendelian condition

MR Vollger, J Korlach, KC Eldred, E Swanson… - 2025 - nature.com
Resolving the molecular basis of a Mendelian condition remains challenging owing to the
diverse mechanisms by which genetic variants cause disease. To address this, we …

Stable centromere association of the yeast histone variant Cse4 requires its essential N-terminal domain

AR Popchock, S Hedouin, Y Mao, CL Asbury… - The EMBO …, 2025 - embopress.org
Chromosome segregation relies on kinetochores that assemble on specialized centromeric
chromatin containing a histone H3 variant. In budding yeast, a single centromeric …

[PDF][PDF] Conservation of dichromatin organization along regional centromeres

D Dubocanin, GA Hartley, AES Cortes, Y Mao… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The focal attachment of the kinetochore to the centromere is essential for genome
maintenance, yet the highly repetitive nature of satellite regional centromeres, such as those …

Single chromatin fiber profiling and nucleosome position mapping in the human brain

CJ Peter, A Agarwal, R Watanabe, BS Kassim… - Cell Reports …, 2024 - cell.com
We apply a single-molecule chromatin fiber sequencing (Fiber-seq) protocol designed for
amplification-free cell-type-specific mapping of the regulatory architecture at nucleosome …

The regulatory potential of transposable elements in maize

KL Bubb, MO Hamm, JK Min, B Ramirez-Corona… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since their initial discovery in maize, transposable elements (TEs) have emerged as being
integral to the evolution of maize, accounting for 80% of its genome. However, the repetitive …