TADs: Dynamic structures to create stable regulatory functions

JA da Costa-Nunes, D Noordermeer - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Mammalian chromosomes are organized at different length scales within the cell nucleus.
Topologically Associating Domains (TADs) are structural units of 3D genome organization …

Enhancer–promoter interactions can bypass CTCF-mediated boundaries and contribute to phenotypic robustness

S Chakraborty, N Kopitchinski, Z Zuo, A Eraso… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
How enhancers activate their distal target promoters remains incompletely understood. Here
we dissect how CTCF-mediated loops facilitate and restrict such regulatory interactions …

Single-cell Hi-C data analysis: safety in numbers

AA Galitsyna, MS Gelfand - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Over the past decade, genome-wide assays for chromatin interactions in single cells have
enabled the study of individual nuclei at unprecedented resolution and throughput. Current …

Pairtools: from sequencing data to chromosome contacts

Open2C, N Abdennur, G Fudenberg… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The field of 3D genome organization produces large amounts of sequencing data from Hi-C
and a rapidly-expanding set of other chromosome conformation protocols (3C+). Massive …

Loop-extrusion and polymer phase-separation can co-exist at the single-molecule level to shape chromatin folding

M Conte, E Irani, AM Chiariello, A Abraham… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Loop-extrusion and phase-separation have been proposed as mechanisms that shape
chromosome spatial organization. It is unclear, however, how they perform relative to each …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic alterations affecting hematopoietic regulatory networks as drivers of mixed myeloid/lymphoid leukemia

R Mulet-Lazaro, S van Herk, M Nuetzel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Leukemias with ambiguous lineage comprise several loosely defined entities, often without
a clear mechanistic basis. Here, we extensively profile the epigenome and transcriptome of …

Contributions of 3D chromatin structure to cell-type-specific gene regulation

M Schaeffer, M Nollmann - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2023 - Elsevier
Eukaryotic genomes are organized in 3D in a multiscale manner, and different mechanisms
acting at each of these scales can contribute to transcriptional regulation. However, the large …

Reconstructing the 3D genome organization of Neanderthals reveals that chromatin folding shaped phenotypic and sequence divergence

E McArthur, DC Rinker, EN Gilbertson, G Fudenberg… - Biorxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Changes in gene regulation were a major driver of the divergence of archaic
hominins (AHs)—Neanderthals and Denisovans—and modern humans (MHs). The three …

High affinity enhancer-promoter interactions can bypass CTCF/cohesin-mediated insulation and contribute to phenotypic robustness

S Chakraborty, N Kopitchinski, A Eraso, P Awasthi… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Transcriptional control by distal enhancers is an integral feature of gene regulation. To
understand how enhancer-promoter interactions arise and assess the impact of disrupting …

Histone exchange sensors reveal variant specific dynamics in mouse embryonic stem cells

M Dunjić, F Jonas, G Yaakov, R More… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Eviction of histones from nucleosomes and their exchange with newly synthesized or
alternative variants is a central epigenetic determinant. Here, we define the genome-wide …