Chromatin regulation at the frontier of synthetic biology

AJ Keung, JK Joung, AS Khalil, JJ Collins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
As synthetic biology approaches are extended to diverse applications throughout medicine,
biotechnology and basic biological research, there is an increasing need to engineer yeast …

Can changes in histone acetylation contribute to memory formation?

JP Lopez-Atalaya, A Barco - Trends in genetics, 2014 - cell.com
Neuronal histone acetylation has been postulated to be a mnemonic substrate and a target
for memory enhancers and neuropsychiatric drugs. Here we critically evaluate this view and …

Synthesis of ADP-ribosylated histones reveals site-specific impacts on chromatin structure and function

N Hananya, SK Daley, JD Bagert… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
ADP-ribosylation of nuclear proteins is a critical feature of various DNA damage repair
pathways. Histones, particularly H3 and H2B, are major targets of ADP-ribosylation and are …

O-GlcNAc: Regulator of Signaling and Epigenetics Linked to X-linked Intellectual Disability

D Konzman, LK Abramowitz, A Steenackers… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cellular identity in multicellular organisms is maintained by characteristic transcriptional
networks, nutrient consumption, energy production and metabolite utilization. Integrating …

Next‐Generation Technologies for Multiomics Approaches Including Interactome Sequencing

H Ohashi, M Hasegawa, K Wakimoto… - BioMed research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐speed analytical techniques such as next‐generation sequencing
and microarrays allows high‐throughput analysis of biological information at a low cost …

Synthetic post-translational modification of histones

S Nadal, R Raj, S Mohammed, BG Davis - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Histones with specific PTMs can be synthesised and assembled in designer
nucleosomes.•Codon suppression, semisynthesis or chemical mutagenesis allows …

Hybrid phase ligation for efficient synthesis of histone proteins

R Ruixuan - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We introduce a hybrid solid-solution phase ligation approach that combines the efficiency of
solid phase ligation with solution phase ligation in the total synthesis of modified histone …

Functional genomics in the study of mind-body therapies

H Niles, DH Mehta, AA Corrigan, MK Bhasin… - Ochsner …, 2014 - ochsnerjournal.org
Background Mind-body therapies (MBTs) are used throughout the world in treatment,
disease prevention, and health promotion. However, the mechanisms by which MBTs exert …

Plug-and-play approach for preparing chromatin containing site-specific DNA modifications: the influence of chromatin structure on base excision repair

DR Banerjee, CE Deckard III, MB Elinski… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The genomic DNA of eukaryotic cells exists in the form of chromatin, the structure of which
controls the biochemical accessibility of the underlying DNA to effector proteins. In order to …

Molecular structures guide the engineering of chromatin

SJ Tekel, KA Haynes - Nucleic acids research, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin is a system of proteins, RNA, and DNA that interact with each other to organize
and regulate genetic information within eukaryotic nuclei. Chromatin proteins carry out …