Ubiquitination of histone H2B regulates chromatin dynamics by enhancing nucleosome stability

MB Chandrasekharan, F Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The mechanism by which ubiquitination of histone H2B (H2Bub1) regulates H3-K4 and-K79
methylation and the histone H2A-H2B chaperone Spt16-mediated nucleosome dynamics …

Histone H2B ubiquitination and beyond: Regulation of nucleosome stability, chromatin dynamics and the trans-histone H3 methylation

MB Chandrasekharan, F Huang, ZW Sun - Epigenetics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Regulation of Set1-COMPASS-mediated H3K4 methylation and Dot1-mediated H3K79
methylation by H2BK123 ubiquitination (H2Bub1) is an evolutionarily conserved trans …

Writing and reading H2B monoubiquitylation

G Fuchs, M Oren - Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2014 - Elsevier
Monoubiquitylation of histone H2B (H2Bub1), catalyzed by the heterodimeric ubiquitin
ligase complex RNF20/40, regulates multiple molecular and biological processes. The …

Centromeric histone H2B monoubiquitination promotes noncoding transcription and chromatin integrity

L Sadeghi, L Siggens, JP Svensson… - Nature structural & …, 2014 - nature.com
Functional centromeres are essential for proper cell division. Centromeres are established
largely by epigenetic processes resulting in incorporation of the histone H3 variant CENP-A …

Histone H2B ubiquitylation disrupts local and higher-order chromatin compaction

B Fierz, C Chatterjee, RK McGinty… - Nature chemical …, 2011 - nature.com
Regulation of chromatin structure involves histone posttranslational modifications that can
modulate intrinsic properties of the chromatin fiber to change the chromatin state. We used …

Identification of a functional hotspot on ubiquitin required for stimulation of methyltransferase activity on chromatin

MT Holt, Y David, S Pollock, Z Tang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine 120 (H2B-Ub) plays a critical role in transcriptional
elongation, chromatin conformation, as well as the regulation of specific histone H3 …

[PDF][PDF] Structural basis of H2B ubiquitination-dependent H3K4 methylation by COMPASS

PL Hsu, H Shi, C Leonen, J Kang, C Chatterjee… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
The COMPASS (complex of proteins associated with Set1) complex represents the prototype
of the SET1/MLL family of methyltransferases that controls gene transcription by H3K4 …

Sumoylated human histone H4 prevents chromatin compaction by inhibiting long-range internucleosomal interactions

A Dhall, S Wei, B Fierz, CL Woodcock, TH Lee… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
The structure of eukaryotic chromatin directly influences gene function, and is regulated by
chemical modifications of the core histone proteins. Modification of the human histone H4 N …

Histone monoubiquitination in chromatin remodelling: focus on the histone H2B interactome and cancer

DJ Marsh, Y Ma, KA Dickson - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Post-translational modifications (PTM) of histone tails represent
epigenomic regulation of the chromatin landscape, influencing gene expression and the …

[HTML][HTML] The enigmatic role of H2Bub1 in cancer

SA Johnsen - FEBS letters, 2012 - Elsevier
The post-translational modification of histone proteins plays an important role in controlling
cell fate by directing essentially all DNA-associated nuclear processes. Misregulation and …