The roles of histone variants in fine-tuning chromatin organization and function

S Martire, LA Banaszynski - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Histones serve to both package and organize DNA within the nucleus. In addition to histone
post-translational modification and chromatin remodelling complexes, histone variants …

Genome-wide CRISPR screens reveal host factors critical for SARS-CoV-2 infection

J Wei, MM Alfajaro, PC DeWeirdt, RE Hanna… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Identification of host genes essential for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) infection may reveal novel therapeutic targets and inform our understanding …

Histone supply: Multitiered regulation ensures chromatin dynamics throughout the cell cycle

S Mendiratta, A Gatto, G Almouzni - Journal of Cell Biology, 2019 - rupress.org
As the building blocks of chromatin, histones are central to establish and maintain particular
chromatin states associated with given cell fates. Importantly, histones exist as distinct …

Coordinated histone variant H2A. Z eviction and H3. 3 deposition control plant thermomorphogenesis

F Zhao, M Xue, H Zhang, H Li, T Zhao… - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plants can sense temperature changes and adjust their development and morphology
accordingly in a process called thermomorphogenesis. This phenotypic plasticity implies …

Oncogenic lncRNAs alter epigenetic memory at a fragile chromosomal site in human cancer cells

G Arunkumar, S Baek, D Sturgill, M Bui, Y Dalal - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Chromosome instability is a critical event in cancer progression. Histone H3 variant CENP-A
plays a fundamental role in defining centromere identity, structure, and function but is …

Structure of the Hir histone chaperone complex

HJ Kim, MR Szurgot, T van Eeuwen, MD Ricketts… - Molecular cell, 2024 - cell.com
The evolutionarily conserved HIRA/Hir histone chaperone complex and ASF1a/Asf1 co-
chaperone cooperate to deposit histone (H3/H4) 2 tetramers on DNA for replication …

Two HIRA-dependent pathways mediate H3. 3 de novo deposition and recycling during transcription

J Torné, D Ray-Gallet, E Boyarchuk… - Nature Structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
Nucleosomes represent a challenge in regard to transcription. Histone eviction enables
RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) progression through DNA, but compromises chromatin integrity …

[HTML][HTML] HIRA protects telomeres against R-loop-induced instability in ALT cancer cells

ML Lynskey, EE Brown, R Bhargava, AR Wondisford… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Inactivating mutations in chromatin modifiers, like the α-thalassemia/mental retardation, X-
linked (ATRX)-death domain-associated protein (DAXX) chromatin remodeling/histone H3. 3 …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide CRISPR screen reveals host genes that regulate SARS-CoV-2 infection

J Wei, MM Alfajaro, RE Hanna, PC DeWeirdt, MS Strine… - Biorxiv, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Identification of host genes essential for SARS-CoV-2 infection may reveal novel therapeutic
targets and inform our understanding of COVID-19 pathogenesis. Here we performed a …

[HTML][HTML] The cell-cycle choreography of H3 variants shapes the genome

K Delaney, N Weiss, G Almouzni - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Histone variants provide versatility in the basic unit of chromatin, helping to define dynamic
landscapes and cell fates. Maintaining genome integrity is paramount for the cell, and it is …