Gene regulatory network inference in the era of single-cell multi-omics

P Badia-i-Mompel, L Wessels, S Müller-Dott… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay between chromatin, transcription factors and genes generates complex
regulatory circuits that can be represented as gene regulatory networks (GRNs). The study …

Towards a comprehensive catalogue of validated and target-linked human enhancers

M Gasperini, JM Tome, J Shendure - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The human gene catalogue is essentially complete, but we lack an equivalently vetted
inventory of bona fide human enhancers. Hundreds of thousands of candidate enhancers …

Auto-aggressive CXCR6+ CD8 T cells cause liver immune pathology in NASH

M Dudek, D Pfister, S Donakonda, P Filpe, A Schneider… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a manifestation of systemic metabolic disease
related to obesity, and causes liver disease and cancer,. The accumulation of metabolites …

p21 produces a bioactive secretome that places stressed cells under immunosurveillance

I Sturmlechner, C Zhang, CC Sine, EJ van Deursen… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Complex multicellular organisms are subject to a myriad of cellular
stresses, which can be managed through cell-intrinsic adaptation and repair mechanisms …

ATAC-seq footprinting unravels kinetics of transcription factor binding during zygotic genome activation

M Bentsen, P Goymann, H Schultheis, K Klee… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
While footprinting analysis of ATAC-seq data can theoretically enable investigation of
transcription factor (TF) binding, the lack of a computational tool able to conduct different …

Regulatory genomic circuitry of human disease loci by integrative epigenomics

CA Boix, BT James, YP Park, W Meuleman, M Kellis - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Annotating the molecular basis of human disease remains an unsolved challenge, as 93%
of disease loci are non-coding and gene-regulatory annotations are highly incomplete …

JASPAR 2020: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

O Fornes, JA Castro-Mondragon, A Khan… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract JASPAR (http://jaspar. genereg. net) is an open-access database of curated, non-
redundant transcription factor (TF)-binding profiles stored as position frequency matrices …

Androgen conspires with the CD8+ T cell exhaustion program and contributes to sex bias in cancer

H Kwon, JM Schafer, NJ Song, S Kaneko, A Li… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Sex bias exists in the development and progression of nonreproductive organ cancers, but
the underlying mechanisms are enigmatic. Studies so far have focused largely on sexual …

Phenotypic heterogeneity driven by plasticity of the intermediate EMT state governs disease progression and metastasis in breast cancer

MS Brown, B Abdollahi, OM Wilkins, H Lu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is frequently co-opted by cancer cells to
enhance migratory and invasive cell traits. It is a key contributor to heterogeneity …

Compatibility rules of human enhancer and promoter sequences

DT Bergman, TR Jones, V Liu, J Ray, E Jagoda, L Siraj… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gene regulation in the human genome is controlled by distal enhancers that activate specific
nearby promoters. A proposed model for this specificity is that promoters have sequence …