Histone chaperone networks shaping chromatin function

CM Hammond, CB Strømme, H Huang… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2017 - nature.com
The association of histones with specific chaperone complexes is important for their folding,
oligomerization, post-translational modification, nuclear import, stability, assembly and …

Histone exchange, chromatin structure and the regulation of transcription

S Venkatesh, JL Workman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
The packaging of DNA into strings of nucleosomes is one of the features that allows
eukaryotic cells to tightly regulate gene expression. The ordered disassembly of …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide CRISPR screens reveal host factors critical for SARS-CoV-2 infection

J Wei, MM Alfajaro, PC DeWeirdt, RE Hanna… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Identification of host genes essential for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) infection may reveal novel therapeutic targets and inform our understanding …

In Vivo Epigenetic CRISPR Screen Identifies Asf1a as an Immunotherapeutic Target in Kras-Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma

F Li, Q Huang, TA Luster, H Hu, H Zhang, WL Ng… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Despite substantial progress in lung cancer immunotherapy, the overall response rate in
patients with KRAS-mutant lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) remains low. Combining standard …

Senescent cells harbour features of the cancer epigenome

HA Cruickshanks, T McBryan, DM Nelson… - Nature cell …, 2013 - nature.com
Altered DNA methylation and associated destabilization of genome integrity and function is
a hallmark of cancer. Replicative senescence is a tumour suppressor process that imposes …

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 …

Histone chaperones: assisting histone traffic and nucleosome dynamics

ZA Gurard-Levin, JP Quivy… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The functional organization of eukaryotic DNA into chromatin uses histones as components
of its building block, the nucleosome. Histone chaperones, which are proteins that escort …

[HTML][HTML] Hira-dependent histone H3. 3 deposition facilitates PRC2 recruitment at developmental loci in ES cells

LA Banaszynski, D Wen, S Dewell, SJ Whitcomb, M Lin… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Summary Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) regulates gene expression during
lineage specification through trimethylation of lysine 27 on histone H3 (H3K27me3). In …

H3. 3 actively marks enhancers and primes gene transcription via opening higher-ordered chromatin

P Chen, J Zhao, Y Wang, M Wang, H Long… - Genes & …, 2013 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The histone variants H3. 3 and H2A. Z have recently emerged as two of the most important
features in transcriptional regulation, the molecular mechanism of which still remains poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive interactome profiling of the human Hsp70 network highlights functional differentiation of J domains

BL Piette, N Alerasool, ZY Lin, J Lacoste, MHY Lam… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Hsp70s comprise a deeply conserved chaperone family that has a central role in
maintaining protein homeostasis. In humans, Hsp70 client specificity is provided by 49 …