Liquid–liquid phase separation in chromatin

K Rippe - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2022 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In eukaryotic cells, protein and RNA factors involved in genome activities like transcription,
RNA processing, DNA replication, and repair accumulate in self-organizing membraneless …

Interaction modules that impart specificity to disordered protein

K Cermakova, HC Hodges - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are especially enriched among proteins that regulate
chromatin and transcription. As a result, mechanisms that influence specificity of IDR-driven …

HP1α is a chromatin crosslinker that controls nuclear and mitotic chromosome mechanics

AR Strom, RJ Biggs, EJ Banigan, X Wang, K Chiu… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Chromatin, which consists of DNA and associated proteins, contains genetic information and
is a mechanical component of the nucleus. Heterochromatic histone methylation controls …

The role of phase separation in heterochromatin formation, function, and regulation

AG Larson, GJ Narlikar - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
In eukaryotic cells, structures called heterochromatin play critical roles in nuclear processes
ranging from gene repression to chromosome segregation. Biochemical and in vivo studies …

H3K9 methylation drives resistance to androgen receptor–antagonist therapy in prostate cancer

M Baratchian, R Tiwari, S Khalighi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Antiandrogen strategies remain the prostate cancer treatment backbone, but drug resistance
develops. We show that androgen blockade in prostate cancer leads to derepression of …

CTCF as a regulator of alternative splicing: new tricks for an old player

AB Alharbi, U Schmitz, CG Bailey… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Three decades of research have established the CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) as a
ubiquitously expressed chromatin organizing factor and master regulator of gene …

Multimodal interactions drive chromatin phase separation and compaction

T Ukmar-Godec, MS Cima-Omori… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Gene silencing is intimately connected to DNA condensation and the formation of
transcriptionally inactive heterochromatin by Heterochromatin Protein 1α (HP1α). Because …

Loss of KMT5C promotes EGFR inhibitor resistance in NSCLC via LINC01510-mediated upregulation of MET

AS Pal, A Agredo, NA Lanman, J Son, IS Sohal… - Cancer research, 2022 - AACR
EGFR inhibitors (EGFRi) are standard-of-care treatments administered to patients with non–
small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that harbor EGFR alterations. However, development of …

Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1): interactions with itself and chromatin components

A Kumar, H Kono - Biophysical reviews, 2020 - Springer
Isoforms of heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) have been known to perform a multitude of
functions ranging from gene silencing, gene activation to cell cycle regulation, and cell …

Evidence for low nanocompaction of heterochromatin in living embryonic stem cells

C Dupont, D Chahar, A Trullo, T Gostan… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Despite advances in the identification of chromatin regulators and genome interactions, the
principles of higher‐order chromatin structure have remained elusive. Here, we applied …