Promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II: a nexus of gene regulation

L Core, K Adelman - Genes & development, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Precise spatio–temporal control of gene activity is essential for organismal development,
growth, and survival in a changing environment. Decisive steps in gene regulation involve …

Bcl6-mediated transcriptional regulation of follicular helper T cells (TFH)

J Choi, S Crotty - Trends in immunology, 2021 - cell.com
Follicular helper T cells (T FH) are essential B cell-help providers in the formation of
germinal centers (GCs), affinity maturation of GC B cells, differentiation of high-affinity …

Efficient low-cost chromatin profiling with CUT&Tag

HS Kaya-Okur, DH Janssens, JG Henikoff, K Ahmad… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract We recently introduced Cleavage Under Targets & Tagmentation (CUT&Tag), an
epigenomic profiling strategy in which antibodies are bound to chromatin proteins in situ in …

A high-resolution protein architecture of the budding yeast genome

MJ Rossi, PK Kuntala, WKM Lai, N Yamada, N Badjatia… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The genome-wide architecture of chromatin-associated proteins that maintains chromosome
integrity and gene regulation is not well defined. Here we use chromatin …

Improved CUT&RUN chromatin profiling tools

MP Meers, TD Bryson, JG Henikoff, S Henikoff - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Previously, we described a novel alternative to chromatin immunoprecipitation, CUT&RUN,
in which unfixed permeabilized cells are incubated with antibody, followed by binding of a …

N6-deoxyadenosine methylation in mammalian mitochondrial DNA

Z Hao, T Wu, X Cui, P Zhu, C Tan, X Dou, KW Hsu… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary N 6-Methyldeoxyadenosine (6mA) has recently been shown to exist and play
regulatory roles in eukaryotic genomic DNA (gDNA). However, the biological functions of …

Phase separation directs ubiquitination of gene-body nucleosomes

LD Gallego, M Schneider, C Mittal, A Romanauska… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The conserved yeast E3 ubiquitin ligase Bre1 and its partner, the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating
enzyme Rad6, monoubiquitinate histone H2B across gene bodies during the transcription …

Epigenome regulation by dynamic nucleosome unwrapping

S Brahma, S Henikoff - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Gene regulation in eukaryotes requires the controlled access of sequence-specific
transcription factors (TFs) to their sites in a chromatin landscape dominated by …

Regulation of promoter proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II in metazoans

R Dollinger, DS Gilmour - Journal of molecular biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Regulation of transcription is a tightly choreographed process. The establishment of RNA
polymerase II promoter proximal pausing soon after transcription initiation and the release of …

MCM2-7 loading-dependent ORC release ensures genome-wide origin licensing

LM Reuter, SP Khadayate, A Mossler, K Liebl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Origin recognition complex (ORC)-dependent loading of the replicative helicase MCM2-7
onto replication origins in G1-phase forms the basis of replication fork establishment in S …