Principles of nucleosome recognition by chromatin factors and enzymes

RK McGinty, S Tan - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent torrent of structures of chromatin complexes determined by cryoelectron
microscopy provides an opportunity to discern general principles for how chromatin factors …

The emerging role of chromatin remodelers in neurodevelopmental disorders: a developmental perspective

B Mossink, M Negwer, D Schubert… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including intellectual disability (ID) and autism
spectrum disorders (ASD), are a large group of disorders in which early insults during brain …

PRC2 functions in development and congenital disorders

O Deevy, AP Bracken - Development, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is a conserved chromatin regulator that
is responsible for the methylation of histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27). PRC2 is essential for …

Polycomb-dependent histone H2A ubiquitination links developmental disorders with cancer

S Tamburri, E Conway, D Pasini - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
Cell identity is tightly controlled by specific transcriptional programs which require post-
translational modifications of histones. These histone modifications allow the establishment …

USP7 regulates the ncPRC1 Polycomb axis to stimulate genomic H2AK119ub1 deposition uncoupled from H3K27me3

A Sijm, Y Atlasi, JA van der Knaap… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Ubiquitin-specific protease 7 (USP7) has been implicated in cancer progression and
neurodevelopment. However, its molecular targets remain poorly characterized. We …

Regulation of p53 by E3s

M Pan, C Blattner - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The p53 protein is a transcription factor that initiates cell cycle arrest and
apoptosis and by this counteracts tumorigenesis. Because of its anti-proliferative activity …

CRISPR-Cas9 human gene replacement and phenomic characterization in Caenorhabditis elegans to understand the functional conservation of human genes and …

TA McDiarmid, V Au, AD Loewen… - Disease Models & …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Our ability to sequence genomes has vastly surpassed our ability to interpret the genetic
variation we discover. This presents a major challenge in the clinical setting, where the …

Polycomb repressive complex 1: Regulators of neurogenesis from embryonic to adult stage

D Desai, P Pethe - Journal of cellular physiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of vertebrate nervous system is a complex process which involves
differential gene expression and disruptions in this process or in the mature brain, may lead …

Rare deleterious de novo missense variants in Rnf2/Ring2 are associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder with unique clinical features

X Luo, K Schoch, SV Jangam… - Human Molecular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Polycomb group (PcG) gene RNF2 (RING2) encodes a catalytic subunit of the
Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1), an evolutionarily conserved machinery that post …

Ubiquitin‐dependent regulation of transcription in development and disease

KG Mark, M Rape - EMBO reports, 2021 - embopress.org
Transcription is an elaborate process that is required to establish and maintain the identity of
the more than two hundred cell types of a metazoan organism. Strict regulation of gene …