Maintenance of silent chromatin through replication requires SWI/SNF-like chromatin remodeler SMARCAD1

SP Rowbotham, L Barki, A Neves-Costa, F Santos… - Molecular cell, 2011 - cell.com
Epigenetic marks such as posttranslational histone modifications specify the functional
states of underlying DNA sequences, though how they are maintained after their disruption …

Cocaine dynamically regulates heterochromatin and repetitive element unsilencing in nucleus accumbens

I Maze, J Feng, MB Wilkinson, HS Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Repeated cocaine exposure induces persistent alterations in genome-wide transcriptional
regulatory networks, chromatin remodeling activity and, ultimately, gene expression profiles …

Nuclear JAK2: form and function in cancer

CJ Qian, J Yao, JM Si - The Anatomical Record: Advances in …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The conventional view of Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) is a nonreceptor tyrosine kinase which
transmits information to the nucleus via the signal transducer and activator of transcriptions …

Histone deacetylase inhibition redistributes topoisomerase IIb from heterochromatin to euchromatin

IG Cowell, N Papageorgiou, K Padget, GP Watters… - Nucleus, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The genome is organised into large scale structures in the interphase nucleus.
Pericentromeric heterochromatin represents one such compartment characterised by …

Heterogeneity in the kinetics of nuclear proteins and trajectories of substructures associated with heterochromatin

L Stixová, E Bártová, P Matula, O Daněk… - Epigenetics & …, 2011 - Springer
Background Protein exchange kinetics correlate with the level of chromatin condensation
and, in many cases, with the level of transcription. We used fluorescence recovery after …

Visualization by BiFC of different C/EBPβ dimers and their interaction with HP1α reveals a differential subnuclear distribution of complexes in living cells

S Susperreguy, LP Prendes, MA Desbats… - Experimental cell …, 2011 - Elsevier
How the co-ordinated events of gene activation and silencing during cellular differentiation
are influenced by spatial organization of the cell nucleus is still poorly understood. Little is …

Effects of epigenetic‐based anti‐cancer drugs in leukaemia and multiple myeloma cells

A Jugová, G Šustáčková, S Legartová… - Cell Biology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we focus on epigenetic changes in leukaemia and MM (multiple myeloma) cells. We
show how the histone signature, DNA methylation and levels of select tumour‐suppressor …

A nonfitting method using a spatial sine window transform for inhomogeneous effective-diffusion measurements by FRAP

DY Orlova, E Bártová, VP Maltsev, S Kozubek… - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
Determining averaged effective diffusion constants from experimental measurements of
fluorescent proteins in an inhomogeneous medium in the presence of ligand-receptor …

Mutant genetic background affects the functional rearrangement and kinetic properties of JMJD2b histone demethylase

E Bártová, L Stixová, G Galiová, AH Horáková… - Journal of molecular …, 2011 - Elsevier
We have studied JMJD2b histone demethylase, which antagonizes H3K9me3 in the
pericentromeric heterochromatin. In cells with a deficiency in the histone methyltransferase …

The molecular mechanisms of latency and reactivation in CD4 positive CD4 positive T cells during HIV infection

S Huppelschoten - 2011 - studenttheses.uu.nl
Aids has become the leading cause of death world-wide. Much research has been done on
the causal agent of this disease, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV infection in …