Menthone lowers H3K27ac levels to inhibit Fusarium proliferatum growth by Li-Yan Zhang, Tian-Tian Li, Hong-Xin Liao, Jin-Rui Wen, Hong-Yan Nie, Fu-Rong Xu, Xiao-Yun Liu, Xian Dong

“…Our RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis identified 7,332 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the control and menthone-treated groups, 3,442 upregulated and 3,880 downregulated, primarily enriched in pathways related to ribosome biogenesis and energy metabolism. Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) analysis revealed that menthone inhibited the growth of F. proliferatum by decreasing H3K27ac levels and interfering with the transcription of energy metabolism-related genes. …”
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HP1 Promotes the Centromeric Localization of ATRX and Protects Cohesion by Interfering Wapl Activity in Mitosis by Erchen Zhang, Lei Peng, Kejia Yuan, Zexian Ding, Qi Yi

“…Background: α thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked (ATRX) serves as a part of the sucrose nonfermenting 2 (SNF2) chromatin-remodeling complex. In interphase, ATRX localizes to pericentromeric heterochromatin, contributing to DNA double-strand break repair, DNA replication, and telomere maintenance. …”
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Exploring the Potential Effectiveness of <i>Croton tiglium</i> Oil and Its Nano-Emulsion on <i>Earias insulana</i> (Lepidoptera: Nolidae) by Karima S. Khater, Marwa M. Abd-Elrhmman, Zeinab M. E. A. Said, Ali A. El-Sayed, Abdelhadi A. I. Ali, Lamya Ahmed Alkeridis, Laila A. Al-Shuraym, Jingwen Wang, Qichun Zhang, Ahmed A. A. Aioub

“…Histologically, there was epithelial cell hypotrophy and detachment, while ultrastructural damage included chromatin condensation, nuclear envelope folding, and mitochondrial damage, indicating apoptotic degeneration. …”
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OsWRKY26 negatively regulates bacterial blight resistance by suppressing OsXa39 expression by Win Tun, Kieu Thi Xuan Vo, Behnam Derakhshani, Jinmi Yoon, Lae-Hyeon Cho, Kay Tha Ye Soe Win, Sang-Won Lee, Ki-Hong Jung, Jong-Seong Jeon, Gynheung An

“…Transient expression experiments in rice protoplasts showed that OsWRKY26 repressed the expression of a Luciferase reporter gene driven by the OsXa39 promoter. Chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis revealed that OsWRKY26 binds directly to the promoter region of OsXa39. …”
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Clofarabine induces tumor cell apoptosis, GSDME-related pyroptosis, and CD8+ T-cell antitumor activity via the non-canonical P53/STING pathway by Jing Chen, Jie Wu, Xiang Chen, Qian Tao, Nian Liu, Cong Peng, Can Lu, Qiuqiu Li

“…The molecular mechanisms of Clo-induced tumor cell death were analyzed using western blotting, ELISA, reverse transcription-PCR, immunofluorescence, co-immunoprecipitation (CO-IP), short hairpin RNA, co-culture, chromatin immunoprecipitation, and flow cytometry. …”
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PARylation of HMGA1 desensitizes esophageal squamous cell carcinoma to olaparib by Xin‐Yuan Lei, Kai‐Yue He, Qiu‐Tong Li, Lei Zhang, Dan‐Hui Wu, Jing‐Yu Yang, Jin‐Rong Guo, Meng‐Jie Liu, Zi‐Long Zhao, Jun‐Qi Li, Huai Liu, Yuan Zhao, Yu‐Jia Li, Qian‐Hui Sun, Chen‐Guang Wu, Yun‐Fan Wang, Geng‐Sheng Cao, Gang Wang, Yong‐Ping Jian, Zhi‐Xiang Xu

“…Abstract As a chromatin remodelling factor, high mobility group A1 (HMGA1) plays various roles in both physiological and pathological conditions. …”
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Knockdown of Gfi1 increases BMSCs exosomal miR-150-3p to inhibit osteoblast ferroptosis in steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head through BTRC/Nrf2 axis by Liwen Zheng, Changjie Zhang, Lele Liao, Zhijie Hai, Xin Luo, Haoliang Xiao

“…To verify the targeting relationship between growth factor independence 1 (Gfi1) and the miR-150-3p promoter, as well as between miR-150-3p and beta-transducin repeat containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase (BTRC), respectively, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP), and dual luciferase assays were employed. …”
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NKAPL facilitates transcription pause-release and bridges elongation to initiation during meiosis exit by Zhenlong Kang, Chen Xu, Shuai Lu, Jie Gong, Ruoyu Yan, Gan Luo, Yuanyuan Wang, Qing He, Yifei Wu, Yitong Yan, Baomei Qian, Shenglin Han, Zhiwen Bu, Jinwen Zhang, Xian Xia, Liang Chen, Zhibin Hu, Mingyan Lin, Zheng Sun, Yayun Gu, Lan Ye

“…NKAPL depletion prolongs Pol II pauses and stalls the SOX30/HDAC3 transcription initiation complex on the chromatin. Genetic variants in NKAPL are associated with azoospermia in humans, while mice carrying an NKAPL frameshift mutation (M349fs) show defective meiotic exit and transcriptomic changes similar to NKAPL depletion. …”
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Neutrophils restricted contribution of CCRL2 genetic variants to COVID-19 severity by Mattia Laffranchi, Elvezia Maria Paraboschi, Francisco Bianchetto-Aguilera, Nicola Tamassia, Sara Gasperini, Elisa Gardiman, Arianna Piserà, Annalisa Del Prete, Pietro Invernizzi, Angela Gismondi, Alberto Mantovani, Marco A. Cassatella, Rosanna Asselta, Silvano Sozzani

“…By the exposure of neutrophils to a TLR8 ligand, reflecting a viral infection, we revealed specific chromatin domains within the 3p21.31 locus exclusive to neutrophils. …”
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Decreased expression of LEF1 caused defective decidualization by inhibiting IL-11 expression in patients with adenomyosis by Jingru Duan, Xiaowei Zhou, Hanfei Zhu, Mingjuan Zhou, Mengyu Liu, Yan Zhou, Wenzhu Li, Bufang Xu, Aijun Zhang

“…Transcriptome sequencing, dual-luciferase reporter assays, and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments showed that LEF1 could bind to the promoter region of interleukin (IL)-11 and promote its transcription, and IL-11 expression was also found to be downregulated in adenomyosis patients. …”
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Insufficient gene expression and lost gene regulatory network may underlie the mechanism of Hirschsprung Disease in 5p–syndrome by Yizhao Luan, Peng Li, Yuanyuan Luo, Hong Zhang, Xiaochun Zhu, Yan Zhang, Aihua Yin, Qiang Wu, Chengwei Chai

“…On the other hand, integrating gene regulatory relationship estimated from single cell chromatin accessibility omics of enteric neurons, we found that the 5p deletion regions contained key cis-regulatory regions for HSCR-related gene GDNF. …”
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Degenerated vision, altered lipid metabolism, and expanded chemoreceptor repertoires enable Lindaspio polybranchiata to thrive in deep-sea cold seeps by Yujie Yan, Inge Seim, Yang Guo, Xupeng Chi, Zhaoshan Zhong, Dantong Wang, Mengna Li, Haining Wang, Huan Zhang, Minxiao Wang, Chaolun Li

“…Compared to its shallow-sea relatives, L. polybranchiata has a significantly higher proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and expanded gene families involved in the biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids and chromatin stabilization, possibly in response to high hydrostatic pressure. …”
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ATG5 and ATG7 Expression Levels Are Reduced in Cutaneous Melanoma and Regulated by NRF1 by Živa Frangež, Deborah Gérard, Zhaoyue He, Marios Gavriil, Yuniel Fernández-Marrero, Yuniel Fernández-Marrero, S. Morteza Seyed Jafari, Robert E. Hunger, Philippe Lucarelli, Shida Yousefi, Thomas Sauter, Lasse Sinkkonen, Hans-Uwe Simon, Hans-Uwe Simon, Hans-Uwe Simon, Hans-Uwe Simon

“…Using bioinformatic predictions of transcription factor (TF) binding motifs in accessible chromatin of primary melanocytes, we identified new TFs involved in the regulation of core ATGs. …”
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Nuclear talin-1 provides a bridge between cell adhesion and gene expression by Alejandro J. Da Silva, Hendrik S.E. Hästbacka, Mikael C. Puustinen, Jenny C. Pessa, Jens C. Luoto, Erika Sundström, Benjamin T. Goult, Guillaume Jacquemet, Eva Henriksson, Lea Sistonen

“…By utilizing both subcellular fractionations and confocal microscopy analyses, we show that TLN1 localizes to the nucleus in several human cell lines, where it is tightly associated with the chromatin. Importantly, small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated depletion of endogenous TLN1 triggers extensive changes in the gene expression profile of human breast epithelial cells. …”
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Dual regulation of the levels and function of Start transcriptional repressors drives G1 arrest in response to cell wall stress by Mihai Spiridon-Bodi, Cristina Ros-Carrero, J. Carlos Igual, Mercè Gomar-Alba

“…To control their protein levels, we used dose-dependent β-estradiol-induced expression and auxin-induced degron protein fusions. We also performed Chromatin Immunoprecipitation assays to investigate Whi7 and Whi5 association with Start promoters and scored cell cycle arrest and re-entry using cell microscopy assays. …”
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CtBP1 is essential for epigenetic silencing of μ-opioid receptor genes in the dorsal root ganglion in spinal nerve ligation-induced neuropathic pain by Cheng-Yuan Lai, Ming-Chun Hsieh, Chou-Ming Yeh, Tzer-Bin Lin, Dylan Chou, Hsueh-Hsiao Wang, Kuan-Hung Lin, Jen-Kun Cheng, Po-Sheng Yang, Hsien-Yu Peng

“…Subsequent investigation unveiled that Foxp1 recruits CtBP1 and associates with HDAC2 to regulate H3K9Ac binding to μ-opioid receptor chromatin regions in the DRG in SNL rats, implicating epigenetic mechanisms in neuropathic pain. …”
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Identifying a Serum Exosomal-Associated lncRNA/circRNA-miRNA-mRNA Network in Coronary Heart Disease by Jia Mao, Yufei Zhou, Licheng Lu, Ping Zhang, Runhua Ren, Yaqiong Wang, Jing Wang

“…Functional enrichment analysis showed that DEMs were significantly enriched in “chromatin silencing at rDNA,” “telomere organization,” and “negative regulation of gene expression, epigenetic.” …”
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Genetic predisposition to Behcet's disease mediated by a IL10RA enhancer polymorphism by Handan Tan, Zhenyu Zhong, Xiaojie Feng, Xiang Luo, Qingfeng Cao, Peizeng Yang

“…Methods: To analyse the genetic susceptibility to BD mediated by IL10RA causal polymorphisms, we performed a study on data from our previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the bioinformatic analysis of post-annotation of GWAS and relevant mechanism verification experiments, including chromatin immunoprecipitation, luciferase gene-reporter assay, electrophoretic mobility shift assays, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. …”
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Secreted LGALS3BP facilitates distant metastasis of breast cancer by Seung-Su Kim, Issac Park, Jeesoo Kim, Na-Lee Ka, Ga Young Lim, Mi-Ye Park, Sewon Hwang, Ji-Eun Kim, So Yeon Park, Jong-Seo Kim, Hyun-Woo Rhee, Mi-Ock Lee

“…The increased expression of LGALS3BP was validated using western blotting, qPCR, ELISA, and IF. Chromatin immunoprecipitation was applied to analyze estrogen-dependent regulation of LGALS3BP transcription. …”
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OLIG2 mediates a rare targetable stem cell fate transition in sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma by Kinjal Desai, Siyi Wanggou, Erika Luis, Heather Whetstone, Chunying Yu, Robert J. Vanner, Hayden J. Selvadurai, Lilian Lee, Jinchu Vijay, Julia E. Jaramillo, Jerry Fan, Paul Guilhamon, Michelle Kushida, Xuejun Li, Gregory Stein, Santosh Kesari, Benjamin D. Simons, Xi Huang, Peter B. Dirks

“…Integrating gene expression and chromatin accessibility patterns in distinct cellular compartments, we identify the transcription factor Olig2 as regulating the stem cell fate transition from quiescence to activation, driving the generation of downstream neoplastic progenitors. …”
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