Energy-driven genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodellers

S Eustermann, AB Patel, KP Hopfner, Y He… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
The packaging of DNA into chromatin in eukaryotes regulates gene transcription, DNA
replication and DNA repair. ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling enzymes (re) arrange …

Chemoenzymatic semisynthesis of proteins

RE Thompson, TW Muir - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Protein semisynthesis—defined herein as the assembly of a protein from a combination of
synthetic and recombinant fragments—is a burgeoning field of chemical biology that has …

[HTML][HTML] Histone dynamics mediate DNA unwrapping and sliding in nucleosomes

GA Armeev, AS Kniazeva, GA Komarova… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nucleosomes are elementary building blocks of chromatin in eukaryotes. They tightly
wrap∼ 147 DNA base pairs around an octamer of histone proteins. How nucleosome …

Structure and function of chromatin remodelers

AA Reyes, RD Marcum, Y He - Journal of molecular biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Chromatin remodelers act to regulate multiple cellular processes, such as transcription and
DNA repair, by controlling access to genomic DNA. Four families of chromatin remodelers …

[HTML][HTML] Human SMARCA5 is continuously required to maintain nucleosome spacing

ML Bomber, J Wang, Q Liu, KR Barnett, HM Layden… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Genetic models suggested that SMARCA5 was required for DNA-templated events including
transcription, DNA replication, and DNA repair. We engineered a degron tag into the …

Structure of the RSC complex bound to the nucleosome

Y Ye, H Wu, K Chen, CR Clapier, N Verma, W Zhang… - Science, 2019 - science.org
The RSC complex remodels chromatin structure and regulates gene transcription. We used
cryo–electron microscopy to determine the structure of yeast RSC bound to the nucleosome …

Bi-directional nucleosome sliding by the Chd1 chromatin remodeler integrates intrinsic sequence-dependent and ATP-dependent nucleosome positioning

S Park, GB Brandani, T Ha… - Nucleic acids research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin remodelers use a helicase-type ATPase motor to shift DNA around the histone
core. Although not directly reading out the DNA sequence, some chromatin remodelers …

Single-molecule analysis and engineering of DNA motors

S Mohapatra, CT Lin, XA Feng, A Basu, T Ha - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular motors are diverse enzymes that transduce chemical energy into mechanical
work and, in doing so, perform critical cellular functions such as DNA replication and …

Sequence specificity in DNA binding is mainly governed by association

E Marklund, G Mao, J Yuan, S Zikrin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Sequence-specific binding of proteins to DNA is essential for accessing genetic information.
We derive a model that predicts an anticorrelation between the macroscopic association and …

Biophysics of chromatin remodeling

IM Nodelman, GD Bowman - Annual review of biophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
As primary carriers of epigenetic information and gatekeepers of genomic DNA,
nucleosomes are essential for proper growth and development of all eukaryotic cells …