[HTML][HTML] The nucleosome: from genomic organization to genomic regulation

S Khorasanizadeh - Cell, 2004 - cell.com
Electron micrographs first confirmed that the eukaryotic genome is organized into repeating
disk-shaped nucleosomal units composed of histones and their associated DNA. Those …

Histone structure and the organization of the nucleosome

V Ramakrishnan - Annual review of biophysics and biomolecular …, 1997 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Chromatin structure is now believed to be dynamic and intimately related with
cellular processes such as transcription. Over the past few years, high-resolution structures …

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 …

Crystal structures of nucleosome core particles containing the '601'strong positioning sequence

D Vasudevan, EYD Chua, CA Davey - Journal of molecular biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Nucleosome positioning plays a key role in genomic regulation by defining histone–DNA
context and by modulating access to specific sites. Moreover, the histone–DNA register …

Characterization of nucleosome core particles containing histone proteins made in bacteria

K Luger, TJ Rechsteiner, AJ Flaus, MMY Waye… - Journal of molecular …, 1997 - Elsevier
The four core histone proteins, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 of Xenopus laevis have been
individually expressed in milligram quantities in Escherichia coli. The full-length proteins …

CENP-C reshapes and stabilizes CENP-A nucleosomes at the centromere

SJ Falk, LY Guo, N Sekulic, EM Smoak, T Mani… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Inheritance of each chromosome depends upon its centromere. A histone H3 variant,
centromere protein A (CENP-A), is essential for epigenetically marking centromere location …

Methylation of histone H3 by coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1

BT Schurter, SS Koh, D Chen, GJ Bunick, JM Harp… - Biochemistry, 2001 - ACS Publications
The preferential in vitro methylation of histone H3 by coactivator-associated arginine
methyltransferase 1 (CARM1) has been proposed as a basis for its ability to enhance gene …

Asymmetries in the nucleosome core particle at 2.5 Å resolution

JM Harp, BL Hanson, DE Timm… - … Section D: Biological …, 2000 - journals.iucr.org
The 2.5 Å X-ray crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle presented here provides
significant additions to the understanding of the nucleosome, the fundamental unit of …

Atomic resolution cryo-EM structure of a native-like CENP-A nucleosome aided by an antibody fragment

BR Zhou, KNS Yadav, M Borgnia, J Hong… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Genomic DNA in eukaryotes is organized into chromatin through association with core
histones to form nucleosomes, each distinguished by their DNA sequences and histone …

CENP-C directs a structural transition of CENP-A nucleosomes mainly through sliding of DNA gyres

SJ Falk, J Lee, N Sekulic, MA Sennett, TH Lee… - Nature structural & …, 2016 - nature.com
The histone H3 variant CENP-A is incorporated into nucleosomes that mark centromere
location. We have recently reported that CENP-A nucleosomes, compared with their H3 …