The COMPASS family of histone H3K4 methylases: mechanisms of regulation in development and disease pathogenesis

A Shilatifard - Annual review of biochemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Set1/COMPASS was the first histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4)
methylase identified over 10 years ago. Since then, it has been demonstrated that …

The complex language of chromatin regulation during transcription

SL Berger - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
An important development in understanding the influence of chromatin on gene regulation
has been the finding that DNA methylation and histone post-translational modifications lead …

Chromatin and transcription in yeast

OJ Rando, F Winston - Genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the mechanisms by which chromatin structure controls eukaryotic
transcription has been an intense area of investigation for the past 25 years. Many of the key …

Chromatin-and transcription-related factors repress transcription from within coding regions throughout the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome

V Cheung, G Chua, NN Batada, CR Landry… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Previous studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have demonstrated that cryptic promoters
within coding regions activate transcription in particular mutants. We have performed a …

Human TFIIH kinase CDK7 regulates transcription-associated chromatin modifications

CC Ebmeier, B Erickson, BL Allen, MA Allen, H Kim… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
CDK7 phosphorylates the RNA polymerase II (pol II) C-terminal domain CTD and activates
the P-TEFb-associated kinase CDK9, but its regulatory roles remain obscure. Here, using …

SMYD5 catalyzes histone H3 lysine 36 trimethylation at promoters

Y Zhang, Y Fang, Y Tang, S Han, J Jia, X Wan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Histone marks, carriers of epigenetic information, regulate gene expression. In mammalian
cells, H3K36me3 is mainly catalyzed by SETD2 at gene body regions. Here, we find that in …

Phosphorylation of the transcription elongation factor Spt5 by yeast Bur1 kinase stimulates recruitment of the PAF complex

Y Liu, L Warfield, C Zhang, J Luo, J Allen… - … and cellular biology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae kinase Bur1 is involved in coupling transcription elongation
to chromatin modification, but not all important Bur1 targets in the elongation complex are …

A comprehensive library of histone mutants identifies nucleosomal residues required for H3K4 methylation

S Nakanishi, BW Sanderson, KM Delventhal… - Nature structural & …, 2008 - nature.com
Methylation of histone 3 lysine 4 (H3K4) by yeast Set1-COMPASS requires prior
monoubiquitination of histone H2B. To define whether other residues within the histones are …

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 …

Phosphorylation of the Pol II CTD by KIN28 enhances BUR1/BUR2 recruitment and Ser2 CTD phosphorylation near promoters

H Qiu, C Hu, AG Hinnebusch - Molecular cell, 2009 - cell.com
Cyclin-dependent kinase BUR1/BUR2 appears to be the yeast ortholog of P-TEFb, which
phosphorylates Ser2 of the RNA Pol II CTD, but the importance of BUR1/BUR2 in CTD …