Is euchromatin really open in the cell?

K Maeshima, S Iida, MA Shimazoe, S Tamura… - Trends in Cell Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Genomic DNA is wrapped around a core histone octamer and forms a nucleosome. In
higher eukaryotic cells, strings of nucleosomes are irregularly folded as chromatin domains …

Chromatin accessibility: methods, mechanisms, and biological insights

AR Mansisidor, VI Risca - Nucleus, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Access to DNA is a prerequisite to the execution of essential cellular processes that include
transcription, replication, chromosomal segregation, and DNA repair. How the proteins that …

Condensed but liquid-like domain organization of active chromatin regions in living human cells

T Nozaki, S Shinkai, S Ide, K Higashi, S Tamura… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
In eukaryotes, higher-order chromatin organization is spatiotemporally regulated as
domains, for various cellular functions. However, their physical nature in living cells remains …

[HTML][HTML] Organization of chromatin by intrinsic and regulated phase separation

BA Gibson, LK Doolittle, MWG Schneider, LE Jensen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Eukaryotic chromatin is highly condensed but dynamically accessible to regulation and
organized into subdomains. We demonstrate that reconstituted chromatin undergoes …

Dynamic organization of chromatin domains revealed by super-resolution live-cell imaging

T Nozaki, R Imai, M Tanbo, R Nagashima, S Tamura… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
The eukaryotic genome is organized within cells as chromatin. For proper information
output, higher-order chromatin structures can be regulated dynamically. How such structures …

Chromatin organization drives the search mechanism of nuclear factors

M Mazzocca, A Loffreda, E Colombo, T Fillot… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nuclear factors rapidly scan the genome for their targets, but the role of nuclear organization
in such search is uncharted. Here we analyzed how multiple factors explore chromatin …

Single nucleosome imaging reveals loose genome chromatin networks via active RNA polymerase II

R Nagashima, K Hibino, SS Ashwin, M Babokhov… - Journal of Cell …, 2019 - rupress.org
Although chromatin organization and dynamics play a critical role in gene transcription, how
they interplay remains unclear. To approach this issue, we investigated genome-wide …

Dynamic chromatin organization without the 30-nm fiber

K Maeshima, S Ide, M Babokhov - Current opinion in cell biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Chromatin in eukaryotic cells is a negatively charged polymer composed of DNA, histones,
and various associated proteins. Over the past ten years, our view of chromatin has shifted …

Micron-scale coherence in interphase chromatin dynamics

A Zidovska, DA Weitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Chromatin structure and dynamics control all aspects of DNA biology yet are poorly
understood, especially at large length scales. We developed an approach, displacement …

The solid and liquid states of chromatin

JC Hansen, K Maeshima, MJ Hendzel - Epigenetics & Chromatin, 2021 - Springer
The review begins with a concise description of the principles of phase separation. This is
followed by a comprehensive section on phase separation of chromatin, in which we recount …