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 …

Staying true to yourself: mechanisms of DNA methylation maintenance in mammals

N Petryk, S Bultmann, T Bartke… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is essential to development and cellular physiology in mammals. Faulty
DNA methylation is frequently observed in human diseases like cancer and neurological …

Tracking chromatin state changes using nanoscale photo-proximity labelling

CP Seath, AJ Burton, X Sun, G Lee, RE Kleiner… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Interactions between biomolecules underlie all cellular processes and ultimately control cell
fate. Perturbation of native interactions through mutation, changes in expression levels or …

Nucleosome density shapes kilobase-scale regulation by a mammalian chromatin remodeler

NJ Abdulhay, LJ Hsieh, CP McNally… - Nature Structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Nearly all essential nuclear processes act on DNA packaged into arrays of nucleosomes.
However, our understanding of how these processes (for example, DNA replication, RNA …

Chromatin accessibility: methods, mechanisms, and biological insights

AR Mansisidor, VI Risca - Nucleus, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Access to DNA is a prerequisite to the execution of essential cellular processes that include
transcription, replication, chromosomal segregation, and DNA repair. How the proteins that …

[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 …

Transcription-coupled nucleosome assembly

F Robert, C Jeronimo - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Eukaryotic transcription occurs on chromatin, where RNA polymerase II encounters
nucleosomes during elongation. These nucleosomes must unravel for the DNA to enter the …

Physical nature of chromatin in the nucleus

K Maeshima, S Iida, S Tamura - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2021 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Genomic information is encoded on long strands of DNA, which are folded into chromatin
and stored in a tiny nucleus. Nuclear chromatin is a negatively charged polymer composed …

Massively multiplex single-molecule oligonucleosome footprinting

NJ Abdulhay, CP McNally, LJ Hsieh, S Kasinathan… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Our understanding of the beads-on-a-string arrangement of nucleosomes has been built
largely on high-resolution sequence-agnostic imaging methods and sequence-resolved …

Ruler elements in chromatin remodelers set nucleosome array spacing and phasing

E Oberbeckmann, V Niebauer, S Watanabe… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Arrays of regularly spaced nucleosomes dominate chromatin and are often phased by
alignment to reference sites like active promoters. How the distances between nucleosomes …