[HTML][HTML] High-resolution and high-accuracy topographic and transcriptional maps of the nucleosome barrier

Z Chen, R Gabizon, AI Brown, A Lee, A Song… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Nucleosomes represent mechanical and energetic barriers that RNA Polymerase II (Pol II)
must overcome during transcription. A high-resolution description of the barrier topography …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleosomes are context-specific, H2A. Z-modulated barriers to RNA polymerase

CM Weber, S Ramachandran, S Henikoff - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
Nucleosomes are barriers to transcription in vitro; however, their effects on RNA polymerase
in vivo are unknown. Here we describe a simple and general strategy to comprehensively …

Nucleosome positioning and kinetics near transcription-start-site barriers are controlled by interplay between active remodeling and DNA sequence

JJ Parmar, JF Marko, R Padinhateeri - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We investigate how DNA sequence, ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and nucleosome-
depleted 'barriers' co-operate to determine the kinetics of nucleosome organization, in a …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic regulation of nucleosome positioning in the human genome

DE Schones, K Cui, S Cuddapah, TY Roh, A Barski… - Cell, 2008 - cell.com
The positioning of nucleosomes with respect to DNA plays an important role in regulating
transcription. However, nucleosome mapping has been performed for only limited genomic …

[HTML][HTML] The kinetic landscape of nucleosome assembly: A coarse-grained molecular dynamics study

GB Brandani, C Tan, S Takada - PLoS computational biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The organization of nucleosomes along the Eukaryotic genome is maintained over time
despite disruptive events such as replication. During this complex process, histones and …

Structural analysis of nucleosomal barrier to transcription

DA Gaykalova, OI Kulaeva, O Volokh… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Thousands of human and Drosophila genes are regulated at the level of transcript
elongation and nucleosomes are likely targets for this regulation. However, the molecular …

Determinants of nucleosome positioning

K Struhl, E Segal - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2013 - nature.com
Nucleosome positioning is critical for gene expression and most DNA-related processes.
Here we review the dominant patterns of nucleosome positioning that have been observed …

[HTML][HTML] Subnucleosomal structures and nucleosome asymmetry across a genome

HS Rhee, AR Bataille, L Zhang, BF Pugh - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Genes are packaged into nucleosomal arrays, each nucleosome typically having two copies
of histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. Histones have distinct posttranslational modifications …

In silico evidence for sequence-dependent nucleosome sliding

J Lequieu, DC Schwartz… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Nucleosomes represent the basic building block of chromatin and provide an important
mechanism by which cellular processes are controlled. The locations of nucleosomes …

Nucleosome positioning by genomic excluding-energy barriers

P Milani, G Chevereau, C Vaillant… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Recent genome-wide nucleosome mappings along with bioinformatics studies have
confirmed that the DNA sequence plays a more important role in the collective organization …