Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• CTCF binding site classes exhibit distinct evolutionary, genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic features.

  PMID 19922652 · PMC3091324 · Genome biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF binding sites can be classified into three occupancy-based classes (LowOc, MedOc, HighOc) based on similarity to the CTCF PWM motif

  cd4+ hela imr90 embryonic chip-seq computational gene

• CTCF/cohesin-binding sites are susceptible to replication-associated DNA damage and genomic instability in cancer cells.

  PMID 41630911 · PMC12860730 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF and cohesin (RAD21) remain co-bound to DNA throughout interphase, including during the S (replication) phase, in HeLa cells

  hela tumors flow chromatin frap

• CTCFBSDB: a CTCF-binding site database for characterization of vertebrate genomic insulators.

  PMID 17981843 · PMC2238977 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF is the only identified trans-acting factor in vertebrates that confers enhancer-blocking insulator activity

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• H3K27 and H3K9 methylation mask potential CTCF binding sites to maintain 3D genome integrity.

  PMID 40764058 · PMC12487818 · Genome research · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  H3K9 and H3K27 methylation regulate CTCF binding at distinct genomic regions, and their simultaneous loss induces drastic changes in CTCF binding

  imefs early ctcf h3k9me3 h3k9me2

• Genome-wide identification of in vivo protein-DNA binding sites from ChIP-Seq data.

  PMID 18684996 · PMC2532738 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  SISSRs identifies binding sites from ChIP-Seq short reads with much higher resolution than the standard region-clustering approach

  cd4+ jurkat hela computational chip-seq novo motif

• Precise modulation of BRG1 levels reveals features of mSWI/SNF dosage sensitivity.

  PMID 40846763 · PMC12425804 · Nature genetics · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  BRG1 binding to chromatin exhibits a linear, dose-dependent response to BRG1 protein levels, independent of TF or histone-modification co-occupancy

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• TP53 engagement with the genome occurs in distinct local chromatin environments via pioneer factor activity.

  PMID 25391375 · PMC4315292 · Genome research · 2015 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TP53 binding events fall into three distinct categories defined by the local chromatin environment: TSS (H3K4me3+), enhancer (H3K4me1+/H3K4me3-), and distal (H3K4me1-/H3K4me3-) peaks.

  imr90 hct116 chip-seq rna-seq atac-seq

• Af-CUT&Tag: a sensitive and antibody-free chromatin profiling method using genetically encoded tags and high-affinity binders fused to Tn5.

  PMID 41547832 · PMC12914055 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Af-CUT&Tag eliminates dependence on conventional target antibodies by using CRISPR-integrated HiBiT/ALFA-tags recognized by LgBiT/NbALFA-Tn5 fusion proteins

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• EpiXFormer: a cross-attention neural network for predicting cell type-specific transcription factor binding sites.

  PMID 41527854 · PMC12796812 · Briefings in bioinformatics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  EpiXFormer achieves high accuracy (mean AUROC ~0.99) predicting binding sites of both TFs and non-sequence-specific DBPs across 199 DBP-cell type pairs

  dbps tfs common ctcf deep comparative feature-ablation

• MoDLE: high-performance stochastic modeling of DNA loop extrusion interactions.

  PMID 36451166 · PMC9710047 · Genome biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MoDLE is a high-performance stochastic model/software for simulating DNA-DNA contacts generated by loop extrusion genome-wide

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• Transient histone deacetylase inhibition induces cellular memory of gene expression and 3D genome folding.

  PMID 41639407 · PMC12900649 · Nature genetics · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Acute HDAC inhibition (TSA pulse) induces genome-wide H3K27 hyperacetylation and reorganizes the histone modification landscape, shifting more of the genome to an active state.

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• Distinguishing benign from pathogenic duplications involving GPR101 and VGLL1-adjacent enhancers in the clinical setting with the bioinformatic tool POSTRE.

  PMID 41540017 · PMC12890961 · NPJ genomic medicine · 2026 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  POSTRE correctly classified all 34 GPR101-associated duplications (27 pathogenic X-LAG, 7 non-pathogenic) as pathogenic or benign

  anterior embryonic patient-derived genome h3k27ac atac-seq rna-seq

• Aberration in DNA methylation in B-cell lymphomas has a complex origin and increases with disease severity.

  PMID 23326238 · PMC3542081 · PLoS genetics · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas display striking intra-tumor (intra-sample) and inter-patient (inter-sample) cytosine methylation heterogeneity that increases progressively with disease aggressiveness (NBC<NGC<FL<GCB<ABC).

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• Remodeling of XIST regulatory landscape during primate evolution.

  PMID 41544163 · PMC12810636 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  XIST regulation has diverged uniquely and rapidly between closely related primates: JPX is a major XIST regulator in human and marmoset ESCs but only a minor regulator in macaque ESCs

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• CTCF's loop-independent functions prevail over chromatin looping in the acute degradation system.

  PMID 41191909 · PMC13107559 · Protein & cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CTCF regulates Ppa2 and Zbtb39 expression through mechanisms independent of chromatin looping

  ctcf-aid mescs rna-seq chip-seq western

• Segzoo: a turnkey system that summarizes genome annotations.

  PMID 42087325 · PMC13189851 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  Segzoo is a turnkey system that automates downloading of reference data and running of analyses to summarize SAGA genome annotations, requiring only a BED-format annotation file as input

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• High-throughput chromatin information enables accurate tissue-specific prediction of transcription factor binding sites.

  PMID 18988630 · PMC2662491 · Nucleic acids research · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Incorporating H3K4me3 chromatin modification estimates greatly improves the accuracy of in silico prediction of in vivo TF binding for a wide range of TFs in human and mouse

  embryonic neural t-cells mm8 chip-seq chip-chip pwm

• Genome-wide kinetic properties of transcriptional bursting in mouse embryonic stem cells.

  PMID 32596448 · PMC7299619 · Science advances · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Transcriptional bursting kinetics is regulated by a combination of promoter- and gene body-binding proteins, including the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) and transcription elongation factors

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• Histone hyperacetylation disrupts core gene regulatory architecture in rhabdomyosarcoma.

  PMID 31784732 · PMC6886578 · Nature genetics · 2019 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SOX8 is a previously unrecognized core regulatory TF in FP-RMS, co-localizing with other CR TFs at SEs and essential for tumor cell growth

  rms rh4 h3k27ac pooled chip-seq

• Reactivation of a developmentally silenced embryonic globin gene.

  PMID 34290235 · PMC8295333 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  In embryonic (primitive) erythroid cells, the ζ-gene lies within a ~65 kb sub-TAD of open, acetylated chromatin and physically interacts with the α-globin super-enhancer.

  primitive embryos ζ-venus atac-seq dnasei chip-seq