Chromatin disruption and modification

AP Wolffe, JJ Hayes - Nucleic acids research, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin disruption and modification are associated with transcriptional regulation by
diverse coactivators and corepressors. Here we discuss the possible structural basis and …

The physics of chromatin

H Schiessel - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent progress has been made in the understanding of the physical properties of
chromatin—the dense complex of DNA and histone proteins that occupies the nuclei of plant …

Crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle at 2.8 Å resolution

K Luger, AW Mäder, RK Richmond, DF Sargent… - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
The X-ray crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle of chromatin shows in atomic
detail how the histone protein octamer is assembled and how 146 base pairs of DNA are …

Solvent mediated interactions in the structure of the nucleosome core particle at 1.9 Å resolution

CA Davey, DF Sargent, K Luger, AW Maeder… - Journal of molecular …, 2002 - Elsevier
Solvent binding in the nucleosome core particle containing a 147 base pair, defined-
sequence DNA is characterized from the X-ray crystal structure at 1.9 Å resolution. A single …

The structure of DNA in the nucleosome core

TJ Richmond, CA Davey - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Abstract The 1.9-Å-resolution crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle containing
147 DNA base pairs reveals the conformation of nucleosomal DNA with unprecedented …

Preparation of nucleosome core particle from recombinant histones

K Luger, TJ Rechsteiner, TJ Richmond - Methods in enzymology, 1999 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the preparation method of nucleosome core
particles (NCPs) from recombinant histones. The ability to make defined NCPs, or arrays of …

Structure of Dnmt3a bound to Dnmt3L suggests a model for de novo DNA methylation

D Jia, RZ Jurkowska, X Zhang, A Jeltsch, X Cheng - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Genetic imprinting, found in flowering plants and placental mammals, uses DNA methylation
to yield gene expression that is dependent on the parent of origin. DNA methyltransferase …

ISWI chromatin remodellers sense nucleosome modifications to determine substrate preference

GP Dann, GP Liszczak, JD Bagert, MM Müller… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
ATP-dependent chromatin remodellers regulate access to genetic information by controlling
nucleosome positions in vivo. However, the mechanism by which remodellers discriminate …

Nucleosome mobilization catalysed by the yeast SWI/SNF complex

I Whitehouse, A Flaus, BR Cairns, MF White… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
The generation of a local chromatin topology conducive to transcription is a key step in gene
regulation 1. The yeast SWI/SNF complex is the founding member of a family of ATP …

ATP-dependent histone octamer sliding mediated by the chromatin remodeling complex NURF

A Hamiche, R Sandaltzopoulos, DA Gdula, C Wu - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
Drosophila NURF is an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex that contains ISWI, a
member of the SWI2/SNF2 family of ATPases. We demonstrate that NURF catalyzes the …