Emerging roles of linker histones in regulating chromatin structure and function

DV Fyodorov, BR Zhou, AI Skoultchi… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Together with core histones, which make up the nucleosome, the linker histone (H1) is one
of the five main histone protein families present in chromatin in eukaryotic cells. H1 binds to …

Evaluation of post-translational modifications in histone proteins: A review on histone modification defects in developmental and neurological disorders

S Ramazi, A Allahverdi, J Zahiri - Journal of biosciences, 2020 - Springer
Post-translational modification (PTM) in histone proteins is a covalent modification which
mainly consists of methylation, phosphorylation, acetylation, ubiquitylation, SUMOylation …

Transcription shapes genome-wide histone acetylation patterns

BJE Martin, J Brind'Amour, A Kuzmin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Histone acetylation is a ubiquitous hallmark of transcription, but whether the link between
histone acetylation and transcription is causal or consequential has not been addressed …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation: Precise modulation of chromatin structure and dynamics

S Li, Y Peng, AR Panchenko - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
DNA methylation plays a vital role in epigenetic regulation in both plants and animals, and
typically occurs at the 5-carbon position of the cytosine pyrimidine ring within the CpG …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct structures and dynamics of chromatosomes with different human linker histone isoforms

BR Zhou, H Feng, S Kale, T Fox, H Khant, N de Val… - Molecular Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The repeating structural unit of metazoan chromatin is the chromatosome, a nucleosome
bound to a linker histone, H1. There are 11 human H1 isoforms with diverse cellular …

Poly (ADP-ribosyl) ation enhances nucleosome dynamics and organizes DNA damage repair components within biomolecular condensates

ML Nosella, TH Kim, SK Huang, RW Harkness… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Nucleosomes, the basic structural units of chromatin, hinder recruitment and activity of
various DNA repair proteins, necessitating modifications that enhance DNA accessibility …

[HTML][HTML] Histone tail conformations: a fuzzy affair with DNA

M Ghoneim, HA Fuchs, CA Musselman - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The core histone tails are critical in chromatin structure and signaling. Studies over the past
several decades have provided a wealth of information on the histone tails and their …

Greater than the sum of parts: complexity of the dynamic epigenome

AA Soshnev, SZ Josefowicz, CD Allis - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
Information encoded in DNA is interpreted, modified, and propagated as chromatin. The
diversity of inputs encountered by eukaryotic genomes demands a matching capacity for …

Chromatin modifying gene mutations in follicular lymphoma

MR Green - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2018 - ashpublications.org
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an indolent malignancy of germinal center B cells. Although the
overall survival of FL patients has recently improved with the introduction of novel therapies …

Biophysics of chromatin dynamics

B Fierz, MG Poirier - Annual review of biophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Nucleosomes and chromatin control eukaryotic genome accessibility and thereby regulate
DNA processes, including transcription, replication, and repair. Conformational dynamics …