A double take on bivalent promoters

P Voigt, WW Tee, D Reinberg - Genes & development, 2013 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Histone modifications and chromatin-associated protein complexes are crucially involved in
the control of gene expression, supervising cell fate decisions and differentiation. Many …

Is H3K4me3 instructive for transcription activation?

FS Howe, H Fischl, SC Murray, J Mellor - Bioessays, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tri‐methylation of lysine 4 on histone H3 (H3K4me3) is a near‐universal chromatin
modification at the transcription start site of active genes in eukaryotes from yeast to man …

CRISPR screens reveal convergent targeting strategies against evolutionarily distinct chemoresistance in cancer

C Zhong, WJ Jiang, Y Yao, Z Li, Y Li, S Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Resistance to chemotherapy has been a major hurdle that limits therapeutic benefits for
many types of cancer. Here we systematically identify genetic drivers underlying …

Distinct roles of GCN5/PCAF‐mediated H3K9ac and CBP/p300‐mediated H3K18/27ac in nuclear receptor transactivation

Q Jin, LR Yu, L Wang, Z Zhang, LH Kasper… - The EMBO …, 2011 - embopress.org
Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) GCN5 and PCAF (GCN5/PCAF) and CBP and p300
(CBP/p300) are transcription co‐activators. However, how these two distinct families of HATs …

Sequence features and chromatin structure around the genomic regions bound by 119 human transcription factors

J Wang, J Zhuang, S Iyer, XY Lin, TW Whitfield… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq) has
become the dominant technique for mapping transcription factor (TF) binding regions …

[HTML][HTML] The language of histone crosstalk

JS Lee, E Smith, A Shilatifard - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
It has been suggested that a specific pattern of histone posttranslational modifications and
their crosstalk may constitute a code that determines transcriptional outcomes. However …

Histone acetyltransferases: challenges in targeting bi-substrate enzymes

H Wapenaar, FJ Dekker - Clinical epigenetics, 2016 - Springer
Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) are epigenetic enzymes that install acetyl groups onto
lysine residues of cellular proteins such as histones, transcription factors, nuclear receptors …

Symmetric dimethylation of H3R2 is a newly identified histone mark that supports euchromatin maintenance

V Migliori, J Müller, S Phalke, D Low, M Bezzi… - Nature structural & …, 2012 - nature.com
The asymmetric dimethylation of histone H3 arginine 2 (H3R2me2a) acts as a repressive
mark that antagonizes trimethylation of H3 lysine 4. Here we report that H3R2 is also …

Sharing the SAGA

D Helmlinger, L Tora - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Transcription initiation is a major regulatory step in eukaryotic gene expression. Co-
activators establish transcriptionally competent promoter architectures and chromatin …

Sequence-specific transcription factor NF-Y displays histone-like DNA binding and H2B-like ubiquitination

M Nardini, N Gnesutta, G Donati, R Gatta, C Forni… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The sequence-specific transcription factor NF-Y binds the CCAAT box, one of the sequence
elements most frequently found in eukaryotic promoters. NF-Y is composed of the NF-YA …