Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41477818›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2026

A SWI/SNF-specific Ig-like domain, SWIFT, is a transcription factor binding platform.

Siddhant U Jain, Kaylyn E Williamson, Alexander W Ying, Aasha M Turner, Ruidong Jerry Jiang, Shaunak Raval, Kevin So, Maxwell J Allison, Akshay Sankar, Daniel D Sáme Guerra and 11 more

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. SMARCD1 and Its Functional Relevance in SWI/SNF and Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

Siddhant U JainDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7390-6757
Kaylyn E Williamson *Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3252-5050
Alexander W Ying *Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-9826-0613
Aasha M TurnerDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Ruidong Jerry JiangDepartment of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3718-634X
Shaunak RavalBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Kevin SoDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5193-7384
Maxwell J AllisonDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Akshay SankarDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0302-1849
Daniel D Sáme GuerraDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1128-7089
Yutong LinDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-3256-3729
Zhe JiangDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2454-1103
Nazar MashtalirDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Henry W RohrsDepartment of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8678-8107
Cheryl F LichtiDepartments of Pathology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4099-4954
Tom W MuirDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9635-0344
Malvina PapanastasiouBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3378-6612
Joao A PauloDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4291-413X
Steven P GygiDepartment of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7626-0034
Michael L GrossDepartment of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1159-4636
Cigall KadochDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4058-5985

Funding

New Sample Multiplexing Technologies to Identify Chemical Probes and Illuminate Ubiquitin BiologyR01GM067945 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI GYGI, STEVEN P · 2003 to 2024
$10.5M
Structure-activity relationships governing mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling activity as a function of chromatin stateR01CA259365 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI Cigall Kadoch, Tom Muir · 2021 to 2026
$4.2M
Reversing Oncogenic BAF Complex Structure & Function: New Therapeutic ApproachesDP2CA195762 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI KADOCH, CIGALL · 2014 to 2014
$2.6M
A Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource: Ongoing Driving Biomedical ProjectsR24GM136766 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GROSS, MICHAEL L · 2020 to 2022
$2.3M
Mass Spectrometry-Based Protein Footprinting: A New Tool for Amyloid Protein AggregationR01AG079283 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MICHAEL L GROSS · 2024 to 2026
$2.2M
Advancing Multiplexed Isobaric Tag-based Strategies for Proteome ProfilingR01GM132129 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PAULO, JOAO A · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
Developing proteomics pipelines to improve depth, throughput, and accuracyR35GM156406 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Joao A Paulo · 2025 to 2026
$878k
Structure and Function of ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human CancerK99CA237855 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI MASHTALIR, NAZAR · 2019 to 2020
$278k
NCI NIH HHS DP2 CA195762NCI NIH HHS K99 CA237855NCI NIH HHS R01 CA259365NIA NIH HHS R01 AG079283NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067945NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132129NIGMS NIH HHS R24 GM136766NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM156406
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammalian switch/sucrose nonfermenting (mSWI/SNF) chromatin remodeling complexes modulate DNA accessibility and gene expression; however, their genomic targeting mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Here, we identify SWIFT [SWI/SNF immunoglobulin fold (Ig-fold) for transcription factor interactions], a conserved transcription factor (TF) binding domain on the SMARCD subunits. SWIFT is necessary and sufficient for direct engagement with the transactivation domain of the PU.1 TF. A single amino acid mutation disrupts PU.1-mSWI/SNF binding, impairs complex targeting, and attenuates oncogenic transcription and proliferation in PU.1-dependent human cancer cells. Dominant expression of the SWIFT domain in isolation sequesters TFs from mSWI/SNF and poisons TF-"addicted" cancer cells. Finally, TFs across diverse families interact with SMARCD paralog-specific SWIFT domains. These results define a major mechanism of cell type- and disease-specific mSWI/SNF chromatin targeting and inform approaches toward therapeutic modulation.

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Chromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneProto-Oncogene ProteinsTrans-ActivatorsTranscription FactorsCell ProliferationChromatinChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyHEK293 CellsHumansMutationProtein BindingProtein DomainsChromatinChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneProto-Oncogene ProteinsSMARCD1 protein, humanSMARCD2 protein, humanSMARCD3 protein, humanSWI-SNF-B chromatin-remodeling complexTrans-ActivatorsTranscription Factors

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PMID41477818
PMCPMC13276876

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