2024
Using a comprehensive atlas and predictive models to reveal the complexity and evolution of brain-active regulatory elements
Pratt H, Andrews G, Shedd N, Phalke N, Li T, Pampari A, Jensen M, Wen C, Consortium P, Gandal M, Geschwind D, Gerstein M, Moore J, Kundaje A, Colubri A, Weng Z. Using a comprehensive atlas and predictive models to reveal the complexity and evolution of brain-active regulatory elements. Science Advances 2024, 10: eadj4452. PMID: 38781344, PMCID: PMC11114231, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj4452.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEpigenetic dataCell-type-specific gene regulationCis-regulatory elementsComprehensive atlasGenetic variants associated with psychiatric disordersLineage-specific transcription factorsBrain cell typesMammalian elementsPsychENCODE ConsortiumNoncoding regionsEvolutionary historyGene regulationRegulatory elementsSequence mutationsTranscription factorsSequence syntaxRegulatory informationPrimate-specific sequencesBinding sitesHuman traitsCell typesFunctional implicationsPsychiatric disordersSequenceFetal brain development
2022
MafB, WDR77, and ß-catenin interact with each other and have similar genome association profiles
He L, Gao M, Pratt H, Weng Z, Struhl K. MafB, WDR77, and ß-catenin interact with each other and have similar genome association profiles. PLOS ONE 2022, 17: e0264799. PMID: 35482762, PMCID: PMC9049301, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264799.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBeta CateninCateninsPromoter Regions, GeneticRNA Polymerase IITranscription FactorsWnt Signaling Pathway
2021
Factorbook: an updated catalog of transcription factor motifs and candidate regulatory motif sites
Pratt H, Andrews G, Phalke N, Huey J, Purcaro M, van der Velde A, Moore J, Weng Z. Factorbook: an updated catalog of transcription factor motifs and candidate regulatory motif sites. Nucleic Acids Research 2021, 50: d141-d149. PMID: 34755879, PMCID: PMC8728199, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab1039.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBinding SitesDatabases, GeneticGene Expression RegulationHumansNucleotide MotifsRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidTranscription FactorsConceptsChIP-seqHT-SELEXTranscription factorsDNA-binding transcription factorsHT-SELEX experimentsChIP-seq dataChIP-seq experimentsAnnotation of variantsTF binding sitesCis-regulatory elementsTranscriptional regulatory proteinsDatabase of annotationsIntegrated analysisENCODE projectHuman genomeMotif modelsTrait heritabilityRegulatory proteinsBinding specificityGene expressionMotifBinding sitesCell typesRegulatory effectsComprehensive collectionYAP and TAZ are transcriptional co-activators of AP-1 proteins and STAT3 during breast cellular transformation
He L, Pratt H, Gao M, Wei F, Weng Z, Struhl K. YAP and TAZ are transcriptional co-activators of AP-1 proteins and STAT3 during breast cellular transformation. ELife 2021, 10: e67312. PMID: 34463254, PMCID: PMC8463077, DOI: 10.7554/elife.67312.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCell Line, TumorCell Transformation, NeoplasticDatabases, GeneticFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsProtein BindingProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsSignal TransductionSTAT3 Transcription FactorTranscription Factor AP-1Transcription FactorsTranscriptional ActivationTranscriptional Coactivator with PDZ-Binding Motif ProteinsTriple Negative Breast NeoplasmsYAP-Signaling ProteinsConceptsTranscriptional co-activatorAP-1 proteinsAP-1Cellular transformationTarget siteNon-overlapping genesStimulated transcriptional activityAssociated with poor survival of breast cancer patientsPoor survival of breast cancer patientsSTAT3 motifTEAD proteinsSequence motifsGene classesWW domainEpigenetic switchTaz paralogTAZ-specificTranscriptional activityTranscription factorsTEADYAP/TAZSTAT3MotifTAZJunBYAP1 Withdrawal in Hepatoblastoma Drives Therapeutic Differentiation of Tumor Cells to Functional Hepatocyte‐Like Cells
Smith J, Rodríguez T, Mou H, Kwan S, Pratt H, Zhang X, Cao Y, Liang S, Ozata D, Yu T, Yin Q, Hazeltine M, Weng Z, Sontheimer E, Xue W. YAP1 Withdrawal in Hepatoblastoma Drives Therapeutic Differentiation of Tumor Cells to Functional Hepatocyte‐Like Cells. Hepatology 2021, 73: 1011-1027. PMID: 32452550, PMCID: PMC8500588, DOI: 10.1002/hep.31389.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsYes-associated protein 1Tumor cellsTumor regressionB-cateninStage IV hepatoblastomaResidual tumor cellsPediatric liver tumorsTherapeutic targetLong-term regressionTherapeutic differentiationHepatocyte-like morphologyFunctional hepatocyte-like cellsChildren's HbHB tumorsHepatocyte gene expressionHepatocyte-like cellsTranscription factor occupancyChemotherapeutic advancesTargeted therapyTumor landscapeLiver tumorsMurine modelHepatoblastomaTumorPromote cell death
2018
Differential analysis of chromatin accessibility and histone modifications for predicting mouse developmental enhancers
Fu S, Wang Q, Moore J, Purcaro M, Pratt H, Fan K, Gu C, Jiang C, Zhu R, Kundaje A, Lu A, Weng Z. Differential analysis of chromatin accessibility and histone modifications for predicting mouse developmental enhancers. Nucleic Acids Research 2018, 46: 11184-11201. PMID: 30137428, PMCID: PMC6265487, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky753.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPeak callersH3K27ac peaksDevelopmental enhancersHistone modificationsDistal cis-regulatory elementsAnalysis of chromatin accessibilityChIP-seq peaksPeak-calling algorithmsDepleted of nucleosomesCis-regulatory elementsModulate gene expressionTransgenic mouse assaysF-SeqDNase-seqHeart enhancersChromatin accessibilityH3K27ac signalH3K27acDNaseGene expressionHistoneDNase peakMouse assayPredicted enhancersDistant tissues
2013
Genome-wide Analysis of Immune System Genes by Expressed Sequence Tag Profiling
Giallourakis C, Benita Y, Molinie B, Cao Z, Despo O, Pratt H, Zukerberg L, Daly M, Rioux J, Xavier R. Genome-wide Analysis of Immune System Genes by Expressed Sequence Tag Profiling. The Journal Of Immunology 2013, 190: 5578-5587. PMID: 23616578, PMCID: PMC3703829, DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1203471.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsCluster AnalysisComputational BiologyDatabases, Nucleic AcidDNA-Binding ProteinsExpressed Sequence TagsGene Expression ProfilingGene Regulatory NetworksGenome-Wide Association StudyGenomicsHumansImmune SystemImmune System DiseasesLymphoma, B-CellMiceMolecular Sequence AnnotationReproducibility of ResultsRNA, Long NoncodingTranscription FactorsTranscriptomeConceptsExpressed sequence tagsExpressed sequence tag profilingEncyclopedia of DNA ElementsHuman expressed sequence tagsGenome-wide analysisIdentification of transcriptsMicroarray-based studiesImmune system genesRNA sequencing analysisStudies of mRNADNA elementsSequence tagsNovel genesMetabolic gene signatureNoncoding genesSequence analysisTranscriptome analysisImmune systemMicroarray studiesOverexpressed genesSystem genesGene expressionGenesFunctional studiesNoncoding RNAs