Regulation, functions and transmission of bivalent chromatin during mammalian development

TA Macrae, J Fothergill-Robinson… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cells differentiate and progress through development guided by a dynamic chromatin
landscape that mediates gene expression programmes. During development, mammalian …

COMPASS and SWI/SNF complexes in development and disease

BK Cenik, A Shilatifard - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Trithorax group (TrxG) of proteins is a large family of epigenetic regulators that
form multiprotein complexes to counteract repressive developmental gene expression …

Clinical exome sequencing for genetic identification of rare Mendelian disorders

H Lee, JL Deignan, N Dorrani, SP Strom, S Kantarci… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Clinical exome sequencing (CES) is rapidly becoming a common molecular
diagnostic test for individuals with rare genetic disorders. Objective To report on initial …

COMPASS Ascending: Emerging clues regarding the roles of MLL3/KMT2C and MLL2/KMT2D proteins in cancer

RJ Fagan, AK Dingwall - Cancer letters, 2019 - Elsevier
The KMT2 (lysine methyltransferase) family of histone modifying proteins play essential
roles in regulating developmental pathways, and mutations in the genes encoding these …

[HTML][HTML] Species richness and beta diversity patterns of multiple taxa along an elevational gradient in pastured grasslands in the European Alps

V Fontana, E Guariento, A Hilpold, G Niedrist… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
To understand how diversity is distributed in space is a fundamental aim for optimizing future
species and community conservation. We examined in parallel species richness and beta …

Disrupted intricacy of histone H3K4 methylation in neurodevelopmental disorders

CN Vallianatos, S Iwase - Epigenomics, 2015 - Future Medicine
Methylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me) is an intricately regulated posttranslational
modification, which is broadly associated with enhancers and promoters of actively …

[PDF][PDF] Mutations in ACTL6B cause neurodevelopmental deficits and epilepsy and lead to loss of dendrites in human neurons

S Bell, J Rousseau, H Peng, Z Aouabed… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
We identified individuals with variations in ACTL6B, a component of the chromatin
remodeling machinery including the BAF complex. Ten individuals harbored bi-allelic …

Expanding the genotypic and phenotypic spectrum in a diverse cohort of 104 individuals with Wiedemann‐Steiner syndrome

SE Sheppard, IM Campbell, MH Harr… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wiedemann‐Steiner syndrome (WSS) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by
monoallelic variants in KMT2A and characterized by intellectual disability and …

[HTML][HTML] Modes of interaction of KMT2 histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase/COMPASS complexes with chromatin

A Bochynska, J Lüscher-Firzlaff, B Lüscher - Cells, 2018 - mdpi.com
Regulation of gene expression is achieved by sequence-specific transcriptional regulators,
which convey the information that is contained in the sequence of DNA into RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism for DPY30 and ASH2L intrinsically disordered regions to modulate the MLL/SET1 activity on chromatin

YT Lee, A Ayoub, SH Park, L Sha, J Xu, F Mao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent cryo-EM structures show the highly dynamic nature of the MLL1-NCP (nucleosome
core particle) interaction. Functional implication and regulation of such dynamics remain …