Chromatin accessibility profiling methods

L Minnoye, GK Marinov, T Krausgruber, L Pan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromatin accessibility, or the physical access to chromatinized DNA, is a widely studied
characteristic of the eukaryotic genome. As active regulatory DNA elements are generally …

High-resolution digital profiling of the epigenome

GE Zentner, S Henikoff - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
The widespread adoption of short-read DNA sequencing as a digital epigenomic readout
platform has motivated the development of genome-wide tools that achieve base-pair …

Genome-wide mapping of nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation within individual DNA molecules

TK Kelly, Y Liu, FD Lay, G Liang, BP Berman… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
DNA methylation and nucleosome positioning work together to generate chromatin
structures that regulate gene expression. Nucleosomes are typically mapped using …

Reconfiguration of nucleosome-depleted regions at distal regulatory elements accompanies DNA methylation of enhancers and insulators in cancer

PC Taberlay, AL Statham, TK Kelly, SJ Clark… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
It is well established that cancer-associated epigenetic repression occurs concomitant with
CpG island hypermethylation and loss of nucleosomes at promoters, but the role of …

Footprinting of mammalian promoters: use of a CpG DNA methyltransferase revealing nucleosome positions at a single molecule level

M Fatemi, MM Pao, S Jeong, EN Gal-Yam… - Nucleic acids …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Promoters are molecular 'modules', which are controlled as individual entities yet are often
analyzed by nuclease digestion methodologies which, a priori, destroy this modularity …

Cooperative binding between distant transcription factors is a hallmark of active enhancers

S Rao, K Ahmad, S Ramachandran - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Enhancers harbor binding motifs that recruit transcription factors (TFs) for gene activation.
While cooperative binding of TFs at enhancers is known to be critical for transcriptional …

Partitioned usage of chromatin remodelers by nucleosome-displacing factors

H Chen, H Kharerin, A Dhasarathy, M Kladde, L Bai - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Nucleosome-displacing-factors (NDFs) in yeast, similar to pioneer factors in
higher eukaryotes, can open closed chromatin and generate nucleosome-depleted regions …

Absolute nucleosome occupancy map for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome

E Oberbeckmann, M Wolff, N Krietenstein… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
Mapping of nucleosomes, the basic DNA packaging unit in eukaryotes, is fundamental for
understanding genome regulation because nucleosomes modulate DNA access by their …

In vivo methylation of mtDNA reveals the dynamics of protein–mtDNA interactions

AP Rebelo, SL Williams, CT Moraes - Nucleic acids research, 2009 - academic.oup.com
To characterize the organization of mtDNA–protein complexes (known as nucleoids) in vivo,
we have probed the mtDNA surface exposure using site-specific DNA methyltransferases …

DNA methylation and nucleosome occupancy regulate the cancer germline antigen gene MAGEA11

SR James, CD Cedeno, A Sharma, W Zhang… - Epigenetics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
MAGEA11 is a cancer germline (CG) antigen and androgen receptor co-activator. Its
expression in cancers other than prostate, and its mechanism of activation, has not been …