Genome-wide function of H2B ubiquitylation in promoter and genic regions

K Batta, Z Zhang, K Yen, DB Goffman… - Genes & …, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Nucleosomal organization in and around genes may contribute substantially to
transcriptional regulation. The contribution of histone modifications to genome-wide …

In Vivo Effects of Histone H3 Depletion on Nucleosome Occupancy and Position in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

AJ Gossett, JD Lieb - PLoS genetics, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Previous studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae established that depletion of histone H4
results in the genome-wide transcriptional de-repression of hundreds of genes. To probe the …

Functional crosstalk between histone H2B ubiquitylation and H2A modifications and variants

F Wojcik, GP Dann, LY Beh, GT Debelouchina… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Ubiquitylation of histone H2B at lysine residue 120 (H2BK120ub) is a prominent histone
posttranslational modification (PTM) associated with the actively transcribed genome …

H2B ubiquitylation in transcriptional control: a FACT-finding mission

RN Laribee, SM Fuchs, BD Strahl - Genes & development, 2007 - genesdev.cshlp.org
A little more than 10 years ago, the laboratory of David Allis published two pioneering
papers in Cell (Brownell et al. 1996; Mizzen et al. 1996) demonstrating that the …

H2B ubiquitylation plays a role in nucleosome dynamics during transcription elongation

AB Fleming, CF Kao, C Hillyer, M Pikaart, MA Osley - Molecular cell, 2008 - cell.com
The monoubiquitylation of histone H2B has been associated with transcription initiation and
elongation, but its role in these processes is poorly understood. We report that H2B …

Genome-wide cooperation by HAT Gcn5, remodeler SWI/SNF, and chaperone Ydj1 in promoter nucleosome eviction and transcriptional activation

H Qiu, RV Chereji, C Hu, HA Cole, Y Rawal… - Genome …, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
Chaperones, nucleosome remodeling complexes, and histone acetyltransferases have
been implicated in nucleosome disassembly at promoters of particular yeast genes, but …

Cotranscriptional histone H2B monoubiquitylation is tightly coupled with RNA polymerase II elongation rate

G Fuchs, D Hollander, Y Voichek, G Ast… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Various histone modifications decorate nucleosomes within transcribed genes. Among
these, monoubiquitylation of histone H2B (H2Bub1) and methylation of histone H3 on …

[HTML][HTML] Combinatorial effects of four histone modifications in transcription and differentiation

JJ Fischer, J Toedling, T Krueger, M Schueler, W Huber… - Genomics, 2008 - Elsevier
Nucleosomes are involved in DNA compaction and transcriptional regulation. Yet it is
unclear whether histone modification marks are primary or secondary to transcription and …

Heavy transcription of yeast genes correlates with differential loss of histone H2B relative to H4 and queued RNA polymerases

HA Cole, J Ocampo, JR Iben, RV Chereji… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic chromatin is composed of nucleosomes, which contain nearly two coils of DNA
wrapped around a central histone octamer. The octamer contains an H3-H4 tetramer and …

Two strategies for gene regulation by promoter nucleosomes

I Tirosh, N Barkai - Genome research, 2008 - genome.cshlp.org
Chromatin structure is central for the regulation of gene expression, but its genome-wide
organization is only beginning to be understood. Here, we examine the connection between …