Chromosome territories

T Cremer, M Cremer - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Chromosome territories (CTs) constitute a major feature of nuclear architecture. In a brief
statement, the possible contribution of nuclear architecture studies to the field of …

Chromatin: constructing the big picture

B Van Steensel - The EMBO journal, 2011 - embopress.org
Chromatin is the ensemble of genomic DNA and a large number of proteins. Various
genome‐wide mapping techniques have begun to reveal that, despite the tremendous …

Histone fold modifications control nucleosome unwrapping and disassembly

M Simon, JA North, JC Shimko… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Nucleosomes are stable DNA–histone protein complexes that must be unwrapped and
disassembled for genome expression, replication, and repair. Histone posttranslational …

Histone H1 subtypes differentially modulate chromatin condensation without preventing ATP-dependent remodeling by SWI/SNF or NURF

J Clausell, N Happel, TK Hale, D Doenecke, M Beato - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Although ubiquitously present in chromatin, the function of the linker histone subtypes is
partly unknown and contradictory studies on their properties have been published. To …

Acetylation of histone H3 at the nucleosome dyad alters DNA-histone binding

M Manohar, AM Mooney, JA North, RJ Nakkula… - Journal of Biological …, 2009 - ASBMB
Histone post-translational modifications are essential for regulating and facilitating biological
processes such as RNA transcription and DNA repair. Fifteen modifications are located in …

Identification and characterization of two novel primate-specific histone H3 variants, H3. X and H3. Y

SM Wiedemann, SN Mildner, C Bönisch, L Israel… - Journal of cell …, 2010 - rupress.org
Nucleosomal incorporation of specialized histone variants is an important mechanism to
generate different functional chromatin states. Here, we describe the identification and …

[HTML][HTML] The nucleosome remodeling factor

SG Alkhatib, JW Landry - FEBS letters, 2011 - Elsevier
An essential component of the chromatin remodeling machinery is NURF (Nucleosome
Remodeling Factor), the founding member of the ISWI family of chromatin remodeling …

Mechanisms of thyroid hormone receptor action during development: lessons from amphibian studies

A Grimaldi, N Buisine, T Miller, YB Shi… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Thyroid hormone (TH) receptor (TR) plays critical roles in vertebrate
development. However, the in vivo mechanism of TR action remains poorly explored …

Helicobacter pylori vesicles carrying CagA localize in the vicinity of cell–cell contacts and induce histone H1 binding to ATP in epithelial cells

MV Turkina, A Olofsson, KE Magnusson… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Helicobacter pylori produces outer membrane vesicles (OMV), delivering bacterial
substances including the oncogenic cytotoxin-associated CagA protein to their …

Base excision repair of 8-oxoG in dinucleosomes

H Menoni, MS Shukla, V Gerson, S Dimitrov… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In this work we have studied the effect of chromatin structure on the base excision repair
(BER) efficiency of 8-oxoG. As a model system we have used precisely positioned …