Covalent modifications of histones: expression from chromatin templates

JR Davie - Current opinion in genetics & development, 1998 - Elsevier
Recent advances highlight the involvement of histone acetyltransferases in transcriptional
activation and histone deacetylases in transcriptional repression. Transcription factors …

Functions of site-specific histone acetylation and deacetylation

MD Shahbazian, M Grunstein - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Histone acetylation regulates many cellular processes, and specific acetylation marks, either
singly or in combination, produce distinct outcomes. For example, the acetylation pattern on …

Histone acetylation and deacetylation in yeast

SK Kurdistani, M Grunstein - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2003 - nature.com
Histone acetylation and deacetylation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae occur by
targeting acetyltransferase and deacetylase enzymes to gene promoters and, in an …

Histone deacetylases, transcriptional control, and cancer

WD Cress, E Seto - Journal of cellular physiology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
A key event in the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression is the posttranslational
modification of nucleosomal histones, which converts regions of chromosomes into …

Regulating histone acetyltransferases and deacetylases

G Legube, D Trouche - EMBO reports, 2003 - embopress.org
Histone acetyltransferases and histone deacetylases regulate the acetylation of histones
and transcription factors, and in doing so have major roles in the control of cell fate. Many …

[HTML][HTML] What's up and down with histone deacetylation and transcription?

MJ Pazin, JT Kadonaga - Cell, 1997 - cell.com
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[HTML][HTML] Acetylation: a regulatory modification to rival phosphorylation?

T Kouzarides - The EMBO journal, 2000 - embopress.org
The fact that histones are modified by acetylation has been known for almost 30 years. The
recent identification of enzymes that regulate histone acetylation has revealed a broader use …

Nuclear histone acetylases and deacetylases and transcriptional regulation: HATs off to HDACs

CA Hassig, SL Schreiber - Current opinion in chemical biology, 1997 - Elsevier
Reversible acetylation of lysines on the amino-terminal tails of nucleosomal histones is
correlated with changes in chromatin structure and transcription. The recent characterization …

[HTML][HTML] Histone acetylation: a switch between repressive and permissive chromatin

A Eberharter, PB Becker - EMBO reports, 2002 - embopress.org
The organization of eukaryotic chromatin has a major impact on all nuclear processes
involving DNA substrates. Gene expression is affected by the positioning of individual …

Histone acetylation and methylation: combinatorial players for transcriptional regulation

W An - Chromatin and Disease, 2007 - Springer
Post-synthetic modification of histone proteins in chromatin architecture plays a central role
in the epigenetic regulation of transcription. Histone acetylation and methylation are the two …