ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling during mammalian development

SK Hota, BG Bruneau - Development, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Precise gene expression ensures proper stem and progenitor cell differentiation, lineage
commitment and organogenesis during mammalian development. ATP-dependent …

Solid tumours hijack the histone variant network

FG Ghiraldini, D Filipescu, E Bernstein - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a complex disease characterized by loss of cellular homeostasis through genetic
and epigenetic alterations. Emerging evidence highlights a role for histone variants and their …

Transcriptional pause sites delineate stable nucleosome-associated premature polyadenylation suppressed by U1 snRNP

AC Chiu, HI Suzuki, X Wu, DB Mahat, AJ Kriz… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Regulation of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) elongation is a critical step in gene regulation.
Here, we report that U1 snRNP recognition and transcription pausing at stable nucleosomes …

Acquired tissue-specific promoter bivalency is a basis for PRC2 necessity in adult cells

U Jadhav, K Nalapareddy, M Saxena, NK O'Neill… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Bivalent promoters in embryonic stem cells (ESCs) carry methylation marks on two lysine
residues, K4 and K27, in histone3 (H3). K4me2/3 is generally considered to promote …

The impact of SWI/SNF and NuRD inactivation on gene expression is tightly coupled with levels of RNA polymerase II occupancy at promoters

S Pundhir, J Su, M Tapia, AM Hansen… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
SWI/SNF and NuRD are protein complexes that antagonistically regulate DNA accessibility.
However, repression of their activities often leads to unanticipated changes in target gene …

The histone variant H2A. Z in yeast is almost exclusively incorporated into the+ 1 nucleosome in the direction of transcription

DN Bagchi, AM Battenhouse, D Park… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Transcription start sites (TSS) in eukaryotes are characterized by a nucleosome-depleted
region (NDR), which appears to be flanked upstream and downstream by strongly …

[HTML][HTML] H2A. Z: a molecular rheostat for transcriptional control

V Subramanian, PA Fields, LA Boyer - F1000prime reports, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The replacement of nucleosomal H2A with the histone variant H2A. Z is critical for regulating
DNA-mediated processes across eukaryotes and for early development of multicellular …

Histone variants H2A. Z and H3. 3 coordinately regulate PRC2-dependent H3K27me3 deposition and gene expression regulation in mES cells

Y Wang, H Long, J Yu, L Dong, M Wassef, B Zhuo, X Li… - BMC biology, 2018 - Springer
Background The hierarchical organization of eukaryotic chromatin plays a central role in
gene regulation, by controlling the extent to which the transcription machinery can access …

Genome-wide chromatin accessibility is restricted by ANP32E

KE Murphy, FW Meng, CE Makowski… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide chromatin state underlies gene expression potential and cellular function.
Epigenetic features and nucleosome positioning contribute to the accessibility of DNA, but …

A new link between transcriptional initiation and pre-mRNA splicing: The RNA binding histone variant H2A. B

TA Soboleva, BJ Parker, M Nekrasov… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The replacement of histone H2A with its variant forms is critical for regulating all aspects of
genome organisation and function. The histone variant H2A. B appeared late in evolution …