Intermediate filaments: molecular structure, assembly mechanism, and integration into functionally distinct intracellular scaffolds

H Herrmann, U Aebi - Annual review of biochemistry, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The superfamily of intermediate filament (IF) proteins contains at least 65 distinct
proteins in man, which all assemble into∼ 10 nm wide filaments and are principal structural …

Orchestrating nuclear envelope disassembly and reassembly during mitosis

S Güttinger, E Laurell, U Kutay - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
Cell division in eukaryotes requires extensive architectural changes of the nuclear envelope
(NE) to ensure that segregated DNA is finally enclosed in a single cell nucleus in each …

HP1α is a chromatin crosslinker that controls nuclear and mitotic chromosome mechanics

AR Strom, RJ Biggs, EJ Banigan, X Wang, K Chiu… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Chromatin, which consists of DNA and associated proteins, contains genetic information and
is a mechanical component of the nucleus. Heterochromatic histone methylation controls …

Transcriptional repression mediated by repositioning of genes to the nuclear lamina

KL Reddy, JM Zullo, E Bertolino, H Singh - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Nuclear compartmentalization seems to have an important role in regulating metazoan
genes,. Although studies on immunoglobulin and other loci have shown a correlation …

Nuclear lamins: laminopathies and their role in premature ageing

JLV Broers, FCS Ramaekers, G Bonne… - Physiological …, 2006 - journals.physiology.org
It has been demonstrated that nuclear lamins are important proteins in maintaining cellular
as well as nuclear integrity, and in maintaining chromatin organization in the nucleus …

Dynamics and interplay of nuclear architecture, genome organization, and gene expression

R Schneider, R Grosschedl - Genes & development, 2007 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The organization of the genome in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell is fairly complex and
dynamic. Various features of the nuclear architecture, including compartmentalization of …

Histone H3 variants and their potential role in indexing mammalian genomes: the “H3 barcode hypothesis”

SB Hake, CD Allis - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
In the history of science, provocative but, at times, controversial ideas have been put forward
to explain basic problems that confront and intrigue the scientific community. These …

The neutrophil nucleus: an important influence on neutrophil migration and function

HR Manley, MC Keightley, GJ Lieschke - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neutrophil nuclear morphology has historically been used in haematology for neutrophil
identification and characterisation, but its exact role in neutrophil function has remained …

Lamin-binding proteins

KL Wilson, R Foisner - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
A-and B-type lamins are the major intermediate filaments of the nucleus. Lamins engage in
a plethora of stable and transient interactions, near the inner nuclear membrane and …

The heterochromatin protein 1 family

G Lomberk, L Wallrath, R Urrutia - Genome biology, 2006 - Springer
Summary Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) was first discovered in Drosophila as a dominant
suppressor of position-effect variegation and a major component of heterochromatin. The …