Chromatin accessibility in the Drosophila embryo is determined by transcription factor pioneering and enhancer activation

KJ Brennan, M Weilert, S Krueger, A Pampari, H Liu… - Developmental cell, 2023 - cell.com
Chromatin accessibility is integral to the process by which transcription factors (TFs) read out
cis-regulatory DNA sequences, but it is difficult to differentiate between TFs that drive …

Rewiring gene circuitry for plant improvement

AT Borowsky, J Bailey-Serres - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Aspirations for high crop growth and yield, nutritional quality and bioproduction of materials
are challenged by climate change and limited adoption of new technologies. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Massively parallel characterization of transcriptional regulatory elements in three diverse human cell types

V Agarwal, F Inoue, M Schubach, BK Martin, PM Dash… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The human genome contains millions of candidate cis-regulatory elements (CREs) with cell-
type-specific activities that shape both health and myriad disease states. However, we lack a …

Massively parallel characterization of regulatory elements in the developing human cortex

C Deng, S Whalen, M Steyert, R Ziffra, PF Przytycki… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Nucleotide changes in gene regulatory elements are important determinants of neuronal
development and diseases. Using massively parallel reporter assays in primary human cells …

Emerging insights into enhancer biology and function

M Arnold, KR Stengel - Transcription, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Cell type-specific gene expression is coordinated by DNA-encoded enhancers and the
transcription factors (TFs) that bind to them in a sequence-specific manner. As such, these …

Type I interferons induce an epigenetically distinct memory B cell subset in chronic viral infection

L Cooper, H Xu, J Polmear, L Kealy, C Szeto, ES Pang… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Memory B cells (MBCs) are key providers of long-lived immunity against infectious disease,
yet in chronic viral infection, they do not produce effective protection. How chronic viral …

[HTML][HTML] Massively parallel characterization of psychiatric disorder-associated and cell-type-specific regulatory elements in the developing human cortex

C Deng, S Whalen, M Steyert, R Ziffra, PF Przytycki… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nucleotide changes in gene regulatory elements are important determinants of neuronal
development and disease. Using massively parallel reporter assays in primary human cells …

EKLF/Klf1 regulates erythroid transcription by its pioneering activity and selective control of RNA Pol II pause-release

K Mukherjee, JJ Bieker - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
EKLF/Klf1 is a zinc-finger transcription activator essential for erythroid lineage commitment
and terminal differentiation. Using ChIP-seq, we investigate EKLF DNA binding and …

Physical interaction between MSL2 and CLAMP assures direct cooperativity and prevents competition at composite binding sites

N Eggers, F Gkountromichos, S Krause… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
MSL2, the DNA-binding subunit of the Drosophila dosage compensation complex,
cooperates with the ubiquitous protein CLAMP to bind MSL recognition elements (MREs) on …

Chromatin accessibility is a two-tier process regulated by transcription factor pioneering and enhancer activation

KJ Brennan, M Weilert, S Krueger, A Pampari, HY Liu… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Chromatin accessibility is integral to the process by which transcription factors (TFs) read out
cis-regulatory DNA sequences, but it is difficult to differentiate between TFs that drive …