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Tongyu Sun

Duke University

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:ATAC-seq· 1 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Assay:Hi-C· 1

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Mechanosensitive genomic enhancers potentiate the cellular response to matrix stiffness

Brian D. Cosgrove, Lexi R. Bounds, Carson Key Taylor, Alan L Su, Anthony J. Rizzo, Alejandro Barrera, Tongyu Sun, Alexias Safi, Lingyun Song, Thomas J. Whitlow, Aleksandra Tata, Nahid Iglesias, Yarui Diao, Purushothama Rao Tata, Brenton D. Hoffman, , Charles A. Gersbach

The paper identifies mechanoenhancers that regulate transcription in response to matrix stiffness and shows their potential for reprogramming cellular responses to mechanical cues.

Science · Sep 25, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics

Crosstalk between RNA m6A and DNA methylation regulates transposable element chromatin activation and cell fate in human pluripotent stem cells

Tongyu Sun, Yueyuan Xu, Yu Xiang, Jianhong Ou, Erik J. Soderblom, Yarui Diao

Nature Genetics · Jul 20, 2023Peer-reviewedGenetics

Multi-omics analysis of chromatin accessibility and interactions with transcriptome by HiCAR

Xiaolin Wei, Xiang Yu, Ruocheng Shan, Derek Peters, Tongyu Sun, Xin Lin, Wei Li, Yarui Diao

The paper introduces HiCAR, a method that simultaneously assesses chromatin accessibility, interactions, and transcriptome in low-input samples, revealing 46,792 cis-regulatory interactions in H1 hESCs.

bioRxiv · Nov 2, 2020 · PreprintGenomics