Developing safe, reversible, and nonhormonal male contraceptives has been hindered by the lack of defined biological windows that can be transientl...

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We present a simple model for analyzing and interpreting data from kinetic experiments that measure engaged RNA polymerase occupancy. The framework represents the densities of nascent transcripts with...

Functional element annotations are critical tools used to provide insight into the molecular processes governing cell development, differentiation, and disease. Run-on and sequencing assays measure th...

The success of Large Language Models has inspired the development of Genomic Foundation Models (GFMs) through similar pretraining techniques. However, the relationship between pretraining performance ...

Recent findings broadened the function of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) proximal promoter motifs from quantitative regulators of transcription to important determinants of transcription start site (TSS) position. These motifs are recognized by transcription factors (TFs) that we propose to term ‘ruler’ TFs (rTFs), such as NRF1, NF-Y, YY1, ZNF143, BANP, and members of the SP, ETS, and CRE families, sharing as a common feature a glutamine-rich (Q-rich) effector domain also enriched in valine, isoleucine, and threonine (QVIT-rich). We propose that rTFs guide TSS location by constraining the position of the pre-initiation complex (PIC) during its promoter recognition phase through a specialized, and still enigmatic, class of activation domains.

Sequence-to-function models have broad applications in interpreting the molecular impact of genetic variation, yet have been criticized for poor performance in this task. Here we show that training mo...

Here, the authors describe 3D hubs as regulatory subunits of gene expression in the three essential lineages of embryogenesis. They develop a computational model that can predict novel enhancers and t...

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Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), together with the ARID DNA-binding domain of ARID1A/B subunits, dictate cBAF chromatin remodeler complex condensate formation, chromatin localization, and prot...