Operating on chromatin, a colorful language where context matters

KE Gardner, CD Allis, BD Strahl - Journal of molecular biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Histones, the fundamental packaging elements of eukaryotic DNA, are highly decorated with
a diverse set of post-translational modifications (PTMs) that are recognized to govern the …

Histones: at the crossroads of peptide and protein chemistry

MM Müller, TW Muir - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION In eukaryotic cells, inheritable information is stored in a nucleoprotein
complex referred to as chromatin. 1 This genome architecture serves two key purposes. On …

An interactive database for the assessment of histone antibody specificity

SB Rothbart, BM Dickson, JR Raab, AT Grzybowski… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Access to high-quality antibodies is a necessity for the study of histones and their
posttranslational modifications (PTMs). Here we debut the Histone Antibody Specificity …

Examining the roles of H3K4 methylation states with systematically characterized antibodies

RN Shah, AT Grzybowski, EM Cornett, AL Johnstone… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are important genomic regulators often
studied by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), whereby their locations and relative …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering post-translational modification codes

AP Lothrop, MP Torres, SM Fuchs - FEBS letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) occur on nearly all proteins. Many domains within
proteins are modified on multiple amino acid sidechains by diverse enzymes to create a …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of combinatorial histone modifications on antibody and effector protein recognition

SM Fuchs, K Krajewski, RW Baker, VL Miller, BD Strahl - Current biology, 2011 - cell.com
Increasing evidence suggests that histone posttranslational modifications (PTMs) function in
a combinatorial fashion to regulate the diverse activities associated with chromatin. Yet how …

The ATRX-ADD domain binds to H3 tail peptides and reads the combined methylation state of K4 and K9

A Dhayalan, R Tamas, I Bock… - Human molecular …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Mutations in the ATRX protein are associated with the alpha-thalassemia and mental
retardation X-linked syndrome (ATR-X). Almost half of the disease-causing mutations occur …

Single-molecule decoding of combinatorially modified nucleosomes

E Shema, D Jones, N Shoresh, L Donohue, O Ram… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Different combinations of histone modifications have been proposed to signal distinct gene
regulatory functions, but this area is poorly addressed by existing technologies. We applied …

H3K14ac is linked to methylation of H3K9 by the triple Tudor domain of SETDB1

RZ Jurkowska, S Qin, G Kungulovski, W Tempel… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
SETDB1 is an essential H3K9 methyltransferase involved in silencing of retroviruses and
gene regulation. We show here that its triple Tudor domain (3TD) specifically binds to doubly …

ChAP-MS: a method for identification of proteins and histone posttranslational modifications at a single genomic locus

SD Byrum, A Raman, SD Taverna, AJ Tackett - Cell reports, 2012 - cell.com
The field of epigenomics has been transformed by chromatin immunoprecipitation
approaches that provide for the localization of a defined protein or posttranslationally …