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A single cell atlas of the mouse seminal vesicle

Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Author(s): Fengyun Sun,Kathleen Desevin,Yu Fu,Shanmathi Parameswaran,Jemma Mayall,Vera Rinaldi,Nils Krietenstein,Artür Manukyan,Qiangzong Yin,Carolina Galan,Chih-Hsiang Yang,Anastasia V Shindyapina,Vadim N Glady...

Source: G3 (Bethesda, Md.)
An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome

Friday, November 01, 2024

Author(s): 4D Nucleome Consortium,Job Dekker,Betul Akgol Oksuz,Yang Zhang,Ye Wang,Miriam K Minsk,Shuzhen Kuang,Liyan Yang,Johan H Gibcus,Nils Krietenstein,Oliver J Rando,Jie Xu,Derek H Janssens,Steven Henikoff,A...

Source: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Sperm-carried IGF2: towards the discovery of a spark contributing to embryo growth and development

Monday, September 23, 2024

Author(s): Rossella Cannarella,Oliver J Rando,Rosita A Condorelli,Sandrine Chamayou,Simona Romano,Antonino Guglielmino,Qiangzong Yin,Tobias Gustafsson Hans,Francesca Mancuso,Iva Arato,Catia Bellucci,Giovanni Luc...

Source: Molecular human reproduction
A single cell atlas of the mouse seminal vesicle

Monday, April 22, 2024

Author(s): Fengyun Sun,Kathleen Desevin,Yu Fu,Shanmathi Parameswaran,Jemma Mayall,Vera Rinaldi,Nils Krietenstein,Artur Manukyan,Qiangzong Yin,Carolina Galan,Chih-Hsiang Yang,Anastasia V Shindyapina,Vadim N Glady...

Source: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Revisiting chromatin packaging in mouse sperm

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Author(s): Qiangzong Yin,Chih-Hsiang Yang,Olga S Strelkova,Jingyi Wu,Yu Sun,Sneha Gopalan,Liyan Yang,Job Dekker,Thomas G Fazzio,Xin Zhiguo Li,Johan Gibcus,Oliver J Rando

Source: Genome research
Food, nutrition, and fertility: from soil to fork

Friday, December 15, 2023

Author(s): Melissa Maitin-Shepard,Erika F Werner,Larry A Feig,Jorge E Chavarro,Sunni L Mumford,Blair Wylie,Oliver J Rando,Audrey J Gaskins,Denny Sakkas,Manish Arora,Rashmi Kudesia,Marla E Lujan,Joseph Braun,Dari...

Source: The American journal of clinical nutrition
RNA polymerase II dynamics shape enhancer-promoter interactions

Monday, July 10, 2023

Author(s): Gilad Barshad,James J Lewis,Alexandra G Chivu,Abderhman Abuhashem,Nils Krietenstein,Edward J Rice,Yitian Ma,Zhong Wang,Oliver J Rando,Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis,Charles G Danko

Source: Nature genetics
Evidence for RNA or protein transport from somatic tissues to the male reproductive tract in mouse

Monday, March 27, 2023

Author(s): Vera Rinaldi,Kathleen Messemer,Kathleen Desevin,Fengyun Sun,Bethany C Berry,Shweta Kukreja,Andrew R Tapper,Amy J Wagers,Oliver J Rando

Source: eLife
Staying together after the breakup: tRNA halves in extracellular fluids

Monday, February 13, 2023

Author(s): Ebru Kaymak,Oliver J Rando

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Sperm Energy Restriction and Recovery (SER) Alters Epigenetic Marks during the First Cell Cycle of Development in Mice

Sunday, January 08, 2023

Author(s): Darya A Tourzani,Qiangzong Yin,Erica A Jackson,Oliver J Rando,Pablo E Visconti,Maria G Gervasi

Source: International journal of molecular sciences
Mammalian Micro-C-XL

Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Author(s): Nils Krietenstein,Oliver J Rando

Source: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Soma-to-germline RNA communication

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Author(s): Colin C Conine,Oliver J Rando

Source: Nature reviews. Genetics
Systematic evaluation of chromosome conformation capture assays

Saturday, September 04, 2021

Author(s): Betul Akgol Oksuz,Liyan Yang,Sameer Abraham,Sergey V Venev,Nils Krietenstein,Krishna Mohan Parsi,Hakan Ozadam,Marlies E Oomen,Ankita Nand,Hui Mao,Ryan M J Genga,Rene Maehr,Oliver J Rando,Leonid A Mirn...

Source: Nature methods
Stability of the cytosine methylome during post-testicular sperm maturation in mouse

Thursday, March 04, 2021

Author(s): Carolina Galan,Ryan W Serra,Fengyun Sun,Vera D Rinaldi,Colin C Conine,Oliver J Rando

Source: PLoS genetics
Deficient spermiogenesis in mice lacking Rlim

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Author(s): Feng Wang,Maria Gracia Gervasi,Ana Bošković,Fengyun Sun,Vera D Rinaldi,Jun Yu,Mary C Wallingford,Darya A Tourzani,Jesse Mager,Lihua Julie Zhu,Oliver J Rando,Pablo E Visconti,Lara Strittmatter,Ingolf B...

Source: eLife
Sperm Head Preparation and Genetic Background Affect Caput Sperm ICSI Embryo Viability: Cauda-Enriched miRNAs Only Essential in Specific Conditions

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Author(s): Colin C Conine,Fengyun Sun,Lina Song,Jaime A Rivera-Pérez,Oliver J Rando

Source: Developmental cell
A Role for the Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 Complex in Gene Expression and Chromosome Organization

Saturday, December 05, 2020

Author(s): Romain Forey,Antoine Barthe,Mireille Tittel-Elmer,Maxime Wery,Marie-Bénédicte Barrault,Cécile Ducrot,Andrew Seeber,Nils Krietenstein,Ugo Szachnowski,Magdalena Skrzypczak,Krzysztof Ginalski,Maga Rowick...

Source: Molecular cell
METTL6 is a tRNA m3C methyltransferase that regulates pluripotency and tumor cell growth

Monday, September 14, 2020

Author(s): Valentina V Ignatova,Steffen Kaiser,Jessica Sook Yuin Ho,Xinyang Bing,Paul Stolz,Ying Xim Tan,Chee Leng Lee,Florence Pik Hoon Gay,Palma Rico Lastres,Raffaele Gerlini,Birgit Rathkolb,Antonio Aguilar-Pi...

Source: Science advances
Histone exchange is associated with activator function at transcribed promoters and with repression at histone loci

Saturday, September 12, 2020

Author(s): Sari Kassem,Paolo Ferrari,Amanda L Hughes,Julien Soudet,Oliver J Rando,Michel Strubin

Source: Science advances
An atlas of cell types in the mouse epididymis and vas deferens

Friday, July 31, 2020

Author(s): Vera D Rinaldi,Elisa Donnard,Kyle Gellatly,Morten Rasmussen,Alper Kucukural,Onur Yukselen,Manuel Garber,Upasna Sharma,Oliver J Rando

Source: eLife
Mesoscale organization of the chromatin fiber

Monday, April 20, 2020

Author(s): Nils Krietenstein,Oliver J Rando

Source: Current opinion in genetics & development
The rRNA m6A methyltransferase METTL5 is involved in pluripotency and developmental programs

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Author(s): Valentina V Ignatova,Paul Stolz,Steffen Kaiser,Tobias H Gustafsson,Palma Rico Lastres,Adrián Sanz-Moreno,Yi-Li Cho,Oana V Amarie,Antonio Aguilar-Pimentel,Tanja Klein-Rodewald,Julia Calzada-Wack,Lore B...

Source: Genes & development
Ultrastructural Details of Mammalian Chromosome Architecture

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Author(s): Nils Krietenstein,Sameer Abraham,Sergey V Venev,Nezar Abdennur,Johan Gibcus,Tsung-Han S Hsieh,Krishna Mohan Parsi,Liyan Yang,René Maehr,Leonid A Mirny,Job Dekker,Oliver J Rando

Source: Molecular cell
Resolving the 3D Landscape of Transcription-Linked Mammalian Chromatin Folding

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Author(s): Tsung-Han S Hsieh,Claudia Cattoglio,Elena Slobodyanyuk,Anders S Hansen,Oliver J Rando,Robert Tjian,Xavier Darzacq

Source: Molecular cell
Corrigendum: Control of noncoding RNA production and histone levels by a 5' tRNA fragment

Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Author(s): Ana Boskovic,Xin Yang Bing,Ebru Kaymak,Oliver J Rando

Source: Genes & development
Early life lessons: The lasting effects of germline epigenetic information on organismal development

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Author(s): Carolina Galan,Marina Krykbaeva,Oliver J Rando

Source: Molecular metabolism
Transitions in paternal social status predict patterns of offspring growth and metabolic transcription

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Author(s): Joseph W Cauceglia,Adam C Nelson,Nimrod D Rubinstein,Shweta Kukreja,Lynsey N Sasso,John A Beaufort,Oliver J Rando,Wayne K Potts

Source: Molecular ecology
Control of noncoding RNA production and histone levels by a 5' tRNA fragment

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Author(s): Ana Boskovic,Xin Yang Bing,Ebru Kaymak,Oliver J Rando

Source: Genes & development
MicroRNAs Absent in Caput Sperm Are Required for Normal Embryonic Development

Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Author(s): Colin C Conine,Fengyun Sun,Lina Song,Jaime A Rivera-Pérez,Oliver J Rando

Source: Developmental cell
Profiling of Pluripotency Factors in Single Cells and Early Embryos

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Author(s): Sarah J Hainer,Ana Bošković,Kurtis N McCannell,Oliver J Rando,Thomas G Fazzio

Source: Cell
tRNA Genes Affect Chromosome Structure and Function via Local Effects

Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Author(s): Omar Hamdani,Namrita Dhillon,Tsung-Han S Hsieh,Takahiro Fujita,Josefina Ocampo,Jacob G Kirkland,Josh Lawrimore,Tetsuya J Kobayashi,Brandon Friedman,Derek Fulton,Kenneth Y Wu,Răzvan V Chereji,Masaya Ok...

Source: Molecular and cellular biology
Condensin-Dependent Chromatin Compaction Represses Transcription Globally during Quiescence

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Author(s): Sarah G Swygert,Seungsoo Kim,Xiaoying Wu,Tianhong Fu,Tsung-Han Hsieh,Oliver J Rando,Robert N Eisenman,Jay Shendure,Jeffrey N McKnight,Toshio Tsukiyama

Source: Molecular cell
Paternal Exercise Improves Glucose Metabolism in Adult Offspring

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Author(s): Kristin I Stanford,Morten Rasmussen,Lisa A Baer,Adam C Lehnig,Leslie A Rowland,Joseph D White,Kawai So,Ana Luisa De Sousa-Coelho,Michael F Hirshman,Mary-Elizabeth Patti,Oliver J Rando,Laurie J Goodyea...

Source: Diabetes
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance

Friday, August 31, 2018

Author(s): Ana Bošković,Oliver J Rando

Source: Annual review of genetics
Small RNAs Gained during Epididymal Transit of Sperm Are Essential for Embryonic Development in Mice

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Author(s): Colin C Conine,Fengyun Sun,Lina Song,Jaime A Rivera-Pérez,Oliver J Rando

Source: Developmental cell
Small RNAs Are Trafficked from the Epididymis to Developing Mammalian Sperm

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Author(s): Upasna Sharma,Fengyun Sun,Colin C Conine,Brian Reichholf,Shweta Kukreja,Veronika A Herzog,Stefan L Ameres,Oliver J Rando

Source: Developmental cell
Effects of Larval Density on Gene Regulation in Caenorhabditis elegans During Routine L1 Synchronization

Sunday, April 01, 2018

Author(s): Io Long Chan,Oliver J Rando,Colin C Conine

Source: G3 (Bethesda, Md.)
Rlim-Dependent and -Independent Pathways for X Chromosome Inactivation in Female ESCs

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Author(s): Feng Wang,Kurtis N McCannell,Ana Bošković,Xiaochun Zhu,JongDae Shin,Jun Yu,Judith Gallant,Meg Byron,Jeanne B Lawrence,Lihua J Zhu,Stephen N Jones,Oliver J Rando,Thomas G Fazzio,Ingolf Bach

Source: Cell reports
Transcriptome-wide Analysis of Roles for tRNA Modifications in Translational Regulation

Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Author(s): Hsin-Jung Chou,Elisa Donnard,H Tobias Gustafsson,Manuel Garber,Oliver J Rando

Source: Molecular cell
A synthetic biology approach to probing nucleosome symmetry

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Author(s): Yuichi Ichikawa,Caitlin F Connelly,Alon Appleboim,Thomas Cr Miller,Hadas Jacobi,Nebiyu A Abshiru,Hsin-Jung Chou,Yuanyuan Chen,Upasna Sharma,Yupeng Zheng,Paul M Thomas,Hsuiyi V Chen,Vineeta Bajaj,Chris...

Source: eLife
LINE-1 activation after fertilization regulates global chromatin accessibility in the early mouse embryo

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Author(s): Joanna W Jachowicz,Xinyang Bing,Julien Pontabry,Ana Bošković,Oliver J Rando,Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla

Source: Nature genetics
Metabolic Inputs into the Epigenome

Thursday, March 09, 2017

Author(s): Upasna Sharma,Oliver J Rando

Source: Cell metabolism
Paternal nicotine exposure alters hepatic xenobiotic metabolism in offspring

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Author(s): Markus P Vallaster,Shweta Kukreja,Xin Y Bing,Jennifer Ngolab,Rubing Zhao-Shea,Paul D Gardner,Andrew R Tapper,Oliver J Rando

Source: eLife
DNA methylation directs genomic localization of Mbd2 and Mbd3 in embryonic stem cells

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Author(s): Sarah J Hainer,Kurtis N McCannell,Jun Yu,Ly-Sha Ee,Lihua J Zhu,Oliver J Rando,Thomas G Fazzio

Source: eLife
Micro-C XL: assaying chromosome conformation from the nucleosome to the entire genome

Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Author(s): Tsung-Han S Hsieh,Geoffrey Fudenberg,Anton Goloborodko,Oliver J Rando

Source: Nature methods
Regulation of X-linked gene expression during early mouse development by Rlim

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Author(s): Feng Wang,JongDae Shin,Jeremy M Shea,Jun Yu,Ana Bošković,Meg Byron,Xiaochun Zhu,Alex K Shalek,Aviv Regev,Jeanne B Lawrence,Eduardo M Torres,Lihua J Zhu,Oliver J Rando,Ingolf Bach

Source: eLife
Dynamics of Nucleosome Positioning Maturation following Genomic Replication

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Author(s): Pauline Vasseur,Saphia Tonazzini,Rahima Ziane,Alain Camasses,Oliver J Rando,Marta Radman-Livaja

Source: Cell reports
Intergenerational Transfer of Epigenetic Information in Sperm

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Author(s): Oliver J Rando

Source: Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine
Biogenesis and function of tRNA fragments during sperm maturation and fertilization in mammals

Saturday, January 02, 2016

Author(s): Upasna Sharma,Colin C Conine,Jeremy M Shea,Ana Boskovic,Alan G Derr,Xin Y Bing,Clemence Belleannee,Alper Kucukural,Ryan W Serra,Fengyun Sun,Lina Song,Benjamin R Carone,Emiliano P Ricci,Xin Z Li,Lucas ...

Source: Science (New York, N.Y.)
Genetic and Epigenetic Variation, but Not Diet, Shape the Sperm Methylome

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Author(s): Jeremy M Shea,Ryan W Serra,Benjamin R Carone,Hennady P Shulha,Alper Kucukural,Michael J Ziller,Markus P Vallaster,Hongcang Gu,Andrew R Tapper,Paul D Gardner,Alexander Meissner,Manuel Garber,Oliver J R...

Source: Developmental cell

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