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 …

Role of TET enzymes in DNA methylation, development, and cancer

KD Rasmussen, K Helin - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The pattern of DNA methylation at cytosine bases in the genome is tightly linked to gene
expression, and DNA methylation abnormalities are often observed in diseases. The ten …

Transcription shapes 3D chromatin organization by interacting with loop extrusion

EJ Banigan, W Tang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Cohesin folds mammalian interphase chromosomes by extruding the chromatin fiber into
numerous loops.“Loop extrusion” can be impeded by chromatin-bound factors, such as …

Targeted in situ genome-wide profiling with high efficiency for low cell numbers

PJ Skene, JG Henikoff, S Henikoff - Nature protocols, 2018 - nature.com
Cleavage under targets and release using nuclease (CUT&RUN) is an epigenomic profiling
strategy in which antibody-targeted controlled cleavage by micrococcal nuclease releases …

Improved CUT&RUN chromatin profiling tools

MP Meers, TD Bryson, JG Henikoff, S Henikoff - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Previously, we described a novel alternative to chromatin immunoprecipitation, CUT&RUN,
in which unfixed permeabilized cells are incubated with antibody, followed by binding of a …

An efficient targeted nuclease strategy for high-resolution mapping of DNA binding sites

PJ Skene, S Henikoff - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
We describe Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease (CUT&RUN), a
chromatin profiling strategy in which antibody-targeted controlled cleavage by micrococcal …

High-resolution TADs reveal DNA sequences underlying genome organization in flies

F Ramírez, V Bhardwaj, L Arrigoni, KC Lam… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite an abundance of new studies about topologically associating domains (TADs), the
role of genetic information in TAD formation is still not fully understood. Here we use our …

Peak calling by Sparse Enrichment Analysis for CUT&RUN chromatin profiling

MP Meers, D Tenenbaum, S Henikoff - Epigenetics & chromatin, 2019 - Springer
Background CUT&RUN is an efficient epigenome profiling method that identifies sites of
DNA binding protein enrichment genome-wide with high signal to noise and low sequencing …

Predicting mRNA abundance directly from genomic sequence using deep convolutional neural networks

V Agarwal, J Shendure - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Algorithms that accurately predict gene structure from primary sequence alone were
transformative for annotating the human genome. Can we also predict the expression levels …

Profiling of pluripotency factors in single cells and early embryos

SJ Hainer, A Bošković, KN McCannell, OJ Rando… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Cell fate decisions are governed by sequence-specific transcription factors (TFs) that act in
small populations of cells within developing embryos. To understand their functions in vivo, it …