Alternative chromatin structure at CpG islands

J Tazi, A Bird - Cell, 1990 - cell.com
… of the released chromatin. Taken to- gether, these results imply that CpG island chromatin
is … Hl is present yet bound more weakly to this chromatin so that 450 mM NH&I is sufficient to …

CpG islands influence chromatin structure via the CpG-binding protein Cfp1

JP Thomson, PJ Skene, J Selfridge, T Clouaire, J Guy… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
… binding without significantly reducing CpG density destroy the immunity of a CpG island to
DNA methylation 25,26 . It follows that H3K4 methylation due to CpG clustering may not be …

DNA methylation and chromatin structure: the puzzling CpG islands

P Caiafa, M Zampieri - Journal of cellular biochemistry, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… termed CpG islands because … CpG islands, which remain protected from methylation in
normal cells, are susceptible to methylation in tumor cells. How the CpG moieties in CpG islands

Synthetic CpG islands reveal DNA sequence determinants of chromatin structure

E Wachter, T Quante, C Merusi, A Arczewska, F Stewart… - Elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
… is the default chromatin structure for CpG-rich, G + C-rich DNA. A high CpG density alone is
… de novo DNA methylation leading to loss of CGI signature chromatin. We conclude that both …

CpG islands in chromatin organization and gene expression

TK Kundu - The Journal of Biochemistry, 1999 - jstage.jst.go.jp
CpG islands may have a role in chromatin organiza tion during spermatogenesis CpG
islands may also be necessary for chromatin … Extensive changes in chromatin structure occur …

CpG island chromatin: a platform for gene regulation

NP Blackledge, R Klose - Epigenetics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… Citation27,Citation42–Citation44,Citation46 One explanation for this relationship is that
chromatin structure at CpG islands creates an accessible environment that favors binding of …

CpG methylation remodels chromatin structure in vitro

C Davey, S Pennings, J Allan - Journal of molecular biology, 1997 - Elsevier
… can be accurately predicted from the CpG dinucleotide frequency. Within the collected
database of human CpG island gene sequences, the over-abundance of (CpG) 3 is even more …

High levels of de novo methylation and altered chromatin structure at CpG islands in cell lines

F Antequera, J Boyes, A Bird - Cell, 1990 - cell.com
… may drive them into an Mspl-insensitive chromatin structure. To test this in other CpG islands,
we analyzed chromatin at 10 of the random island sequences used previously (see Figure …

[HTML][HTML] CpG island structure and trithorax/polycomb chromatin domains in human cells

DA Orlando, MG Guenther, GM Frampton, RA Young - Genomics, 2012 - Elsevier
… bivalent chromatin domains precisely span the CpG island clusters. We conclude that CpG
island structure plays a fundamental role in defining TrxG/PcG chromatin structure in human …

CpG islands and the regulation of transcription

AM Deaton, A Bird - Genes & development, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
CpG islands (CGIs) are short interspersed DNA sequences that deviate significantly from the
average genomic pattern by being GC-rich, CpG-… to influence local chromatin structure and …