Nucleolin: a multiFACeTed protein

F Mongelard, P Bouvet - Trends in cell biology, 2007 - cell.com
Nucleolin is an abundant, ubiquitously expressed protein that is found in various cell
compartments, especially in the nucleolus, of which it is a major component. This …

Nucleosome displacement in transcription

JL Workman - Genes & development, 2006 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Recent reports reinforce the notion that nucleosomes are highly dynamic in response to the
process of transcription. Nucleosomes are displaced at promoters during gene activation in …

The insulator binding protein CTCF positions 20 nucleosomes around its binding sites across the human genome

Y Fu, M Sinha, CL Peterson, Z Weng - PLoS genetics, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Chromatin structure plays an important role in modulating the accessibility of genomic DNA
to regulatory proteins in eukaryotic cells. We performed an integrative analysis on dozens of …

Progesterone action in human tissues: regulation by progesterone receptor (PR) isoform expression, nuclear positioning and coregulator expression

KM Scarpin, JD Graham, PA Mote… - Nuclear receptor …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Progesterone is a critical regulator of normal female reproductive function, with diverse
tissue-specific effects in the human. The effects of progesterone are mediated by its nuclear …

Nucleosome and chromatin fiber dynamics

K Luger, JC Hansen - Current opinion in structural biology, 2005 - Elsevier
Chromosomal DNA is packaged into condensed nucleoprotein suprastructures, yet the DNA
can be accessed as needed within this structural context. Recently, progress has been …

Nucleolin is a histone chaperone with FACT‐like activity and assists remodeling of nucleosomes

D Angelov, VA Bondarenko, S Almagro… - The EMBO …, 2006 - embopress.org
Remodeling machines play an essential role in the control of gene expression, but how their
activity is regulated is not known. Here we report that the nuclear protein nucleolin …

The histone variant macroH2A is an epigenetic regulator of key developmental genes

M Buschbeck, I Uribesalgo, I Wibowo, P Rué… - Nature structural & …, 2009 - nature.com
The histone variants macroH2A1 and macroH2A2 are associated with X chromosome
inactivation in female mammals. However, the physiological function of macroH2A proteins …

Epigenetic aberrations and cancer

M Ducasse, MA Brown - Molecular cancer, 2006 - Springer
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High nucleosome occupancy is encoded at human regulatory sequences

D Tillo, N Kaplan, IK Moore, Y Fondufe-Mittendorf… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Active eukaryotic regulatory sites are characterized by open chromatin, and yeast promoters
and transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) typically have low intrinsic nucleosome …

The dynamics of chromatin remodeling at promoters

J Mellor - Molecular cell, 2005 - cell.com
The nucleosome, the structural unit of chromatin, is known to play a central role in regulating
gene transcription from promoters. The last seven years have spawned a vast amount of …