Enhancer–promoter specificity in gene transcription: molecular mechanisms and disease associations

MJ Friedman, T Wagner, H Lee… - … & Molecular Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Although often located at a distance from their target gene promoters, enhancers are the
primary genomic determinants of temporal and spatial transcriptional specificity in …

Intertwining roles of R-loops and G-quadruplexes in DNA repair, transcription and genome organization

P Wulfridge, K Sarma - Nature Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
R-loops are three-stranded nucleic acid structures that are abundant and widespread across
the genome and that have important physiological roles in many nuclear processes. Their …

Chromatin alternates between A and B compartments at kilobase scale for subgenic organization

HL Harris, H Gu, M Olshansky, A Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nuclear compartments are prominent features of 3D chromatin organization, but sequencing
depth limitations have impeded investigation at ultra fine-scale. CTCF loops are generally …

G-quadruplexes associated with R-loops promote CTCF binding

P Wulfridge, Q Yan, N Rell, J Doherty, S Jacobson… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CTCF is a critical regulator of genome architecture and gene expression that binds
thousands of sites on chromatin. CTCF genomic localization is controlled by the recognition …

Exploring the roles of RNAs in chromatin architecture using deep learning

S Kuang, KS Pollard - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Recent studies have highlighted the impact of both transcription and transcripts on 3D
genome organization, particularly its dynamics. Here, we propose a deep learning …

The long non-coding RNA ANRIL in cancers

A Sanchez, J Lhuillier, G Grosjean, L Ayadi, S Maenner - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The human genome produces various types of RNA molecules. A
significant portion of these are long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) exceeding 200 nts without …

Enhancers are genes that express organizational RNAs

JS Mattick - Frontiers in RNA Research, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A longstanding enigma in molecular biology is the lack of scaling of protein-coding genes
with developmental complexity, referred to as the g-value paradox. On the other hand, a …

Predicting scale-dependent chromatin polymer properties from systematic coarse-graining

S Kadam, K Kumari, V Manivannan, S Dutta… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Simulating chromatin is crucial for predicting genome organization and dynamics. Although
coarse-grained bead-spring polymer models are commonly used to describe chromatin, the …

TAD border deletion at the Kit locus causes tissue-specific ectopic activation of a neighboring gene

E Kabirova, A Ryzhkova, V Lukyanchikova… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Topologically associated domains (TADs) restrict promoter-enhancer interactions, thereby
maintaining the spatiotemporal pattern of gene activity. However, rearrangements of the …

CatLearning: highly accurate gene expression prediction from histone mark

W Lu, Y Tang, Y Liu, S Lin, Q Shuai… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Histone modifications, known as histone marks, are pivotal in regulating gene expression
within cells. The vast array of potential combinations of histone marks presents a …