Functional characterization of human genomic variation linked to polygenic diseases

T Fabo, P Khavari - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
The burden of human disease lies predominantly in polygenic diseases. Since the early
2000s, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic variants and loci …

Characterizing crosstalk in epigenetic signaling to understand disease physiology

JK Lempiäinen, BA Garcia - Biochemical Journal, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Epigenetics, the inheritance of genomic information independent of DNA sequence, controls
the interpretation of extracellular and intracellular signals in cell homeostasis, proliferation …

Spatiotemporal and global profiling of DNA–protein interactions enables discovery of low-affinity transcription factors

AD Guo, KN Yan, H Hu, L Zhai, TF Hu, H Su, Y Chi… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Precise dissection of DNA–protein interactions is essential for elucidating the recognition
basis, dynamics and gene regulation mechanism. However, global profiling of weak and …

Sea-ATI unravels novel vocabularies of plant active cistrome

C Wen, Z Yuan, X Zhang, H Chen, L Luo… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The cistrome consists of all cis-acting regulatory elements recognized by transcription
factors (TFs). However, only a portion of the cistrome is active for TF binding in a specific …

Mass Spectrometry for Assessing Protein–Nucleic Acid Interactions

X He, X Chen, Y Wang - Analytical chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Protein− nucleic acid interactions, including the interac-tions of proteins with DNA, RNA, and
DNA/RNA hybrid, often confer important biological consequences to targeted nucleic acids …

ChIP-MS reveals the local chromatin composition by label-free quantitative proteomics

WK Yong, G Rane, N Zaal Anuar, X Shao, CY Goh… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) has been a cornerstone for epigenetic analyses over
the last decades, but even coupled to sequencing approaches (ChIP-seq), it is ultimately …

E4F1 and ZNF148 are transcriptional activators of the− 57A> C and wild-type TERT promoter

BH Chua, NZ Anuar, L Ferry, C Domrane… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
Point mutations within the TERT promoter are the most recurrent somatic noncoding
mutations identified across different cancer types, including glioblastoma, melanoma …