The roles of histone variants in fine-tuning chromatin organization and function

S Martire, LA Banaszynski - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Histones serve to both package and organize DNA within the nucleus. In addition to histone
post-translational modification and chromatin remodelling complexes, histone variants …

Post-translational modifications of histones that influence nucleosome dynamics

GD Bowman, MG Poirier - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nucleosomes are efficient DNA-packaging units. The fundamental protein unit of the
nucleosome is the histone dimer, a simple α-helical domain possessing a highly basic …

Transposition of native chromatin for fast and sensitive epigenomic profiling of open chromatin, DNA-binding proteins and nucleosome position

JD Buenrostro, PG Giresi, LC Zaba, HY Chang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
We describe an assay for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq),
based on direct in vitro transposition of sequencing adaptors into native chromatin, as a …

Variants of core histones and their roles in cell fate decisions, development and cancer

M Buschbeck, SB Hake - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017 - nature.com
Histone variants endow chromatin with unique properties and show a specific genomic
distribution that is regulated by specific deposition and removal machineries. These variants …

New insights into nucleosome and chromatin structure: an ordered state or a disordered affair?

K Luger, ML Dechassa, DJ Tremethick - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2012 - nature.com
The compaction of genomic DNA into chromatin has profound implications for the regulation
of key processes such as transcription, replication and DNA repair. Nucleosomes, the …

Histone variants—ancient wrap artists of the epigenome

PB Talbert, S Henikoff - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
Histones wrap DNA to form nucleosome particles that compact eukaryotic genomes. Variant
histones have evolved crucial roles in chromosome segregation, transcriptional regulation …

Chromatin higher-order structures and gene regulation

G Li, D Reinberg - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2011 - Elsevier
Genomic DNA in the eukaryotic nucleus is hierarchically packaged by histones into
chromatin to fit inside the nucleus. The dynamics of higher-order chromatin compaction play …

Histones: annotating chromatin

EI Campos, D Reinberg - Annual review of genetics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Chromatin is a highly regulated nucleoprotein complex through which genetic material is
structured and maneuvered to elicit cellular processes, including transcription, cell division …

Histone variants: dynamic punctuation in transcription

CM Weber, S Henikoff - Genes & development, 2014 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Eukaryotic gene regulation involves a balance between packaging of the genome into
nucleosomes and enabling access to regulatory proteins and RNA polymerase …

[HTML][HTML] Plant responses to abiotic stress: the chromatin context of transcriptional regulation

MA Asensi-Fabado, A Amtmann, G Perrella - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2017 - Elsevier
The ability of plants to cope with abiotic environmental stresses such as drought, salinity,
heat, cold or flooding relies on flexible mechanisms for re-programming gene expression …