Is euchromatin really open in the cell?

K Maeshima, S Iida, MA Shimazoe, S Tamura… - Trends in Cell Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Genomic DNA is wrapped around a core histone octamer and forms a nucleosome. In
higher eukaryotic cells, strings of nucleosomes are irregularly folded as chromatin domains …

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 …

Condensed but liquid-like domain organization of active chromatin regions in living human cells

T Nozaki, S Shinkai, S Ide, K Higashi, S Tamura… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
In eukaryotes, higher-order chromatin organization is spatiotemporally regulated as
domains, for various cellular functions. However, their physical nature in living cells remains …

ChromEMT: Visualizing 3D chromatin structure and compaction in interphase and mitotic cells

HD Ou, S Phan, TJ Deerinck, A Thor, MH Ellisman… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In human cells, 2 m of DNA are compacted in the nucleus through
assembly with histones and other proteins into chromatin structures, megabase three …

Mapping 3D genome organization relative to nuclear compartments using TSA-Seq as a cytological ruler

Y Chen, Y Zhang, Y Wang, L Zhang… - Journal of Cell …, 2018 - rupress.org
While nuclear compartmentalization is an essential feature of three-dimensional genome
organization, no genomic method exists for measuring chromosome distances to defined …

Chromosome territories, nuclear architecture and gene regulation in mammalian cells

T Cremer, C Cremer - Nature reviews genetics, 2001 - nature.com
The expression of genes is regulated at many levels. Perhaps the area in which least is
known is how nuclear organization influences gene expression. Studies of higher-order …

Mitosis-specific phosphorylation of histone H3 initiates primarily within pericentromeric heterochromatin during G2 and spreads in an ordered fashion coincident with …

MJ Hendzel, Y Wei, MA Mancini, A Van Hooser… - Chromosoma, 1997 - Springer
We have generated and characterized a novel site-specific antibody highly specific for the
phosphorylated form of the amino-terminus of histone H3 (Ser10). In this study, we used this …

Histone–GFP fusion protein enables sensitive analysis of chromosome dynamics in living mammalian cells

T Kanda, KF Sullivan, GM Wahl - Current Biology, 1998 - cell.com
Background: The amplification of oncogenes in cancer cells is often mediated by paired
acentric chromatin bodies called double minute chromosomes (DMs), which can accumulate …

Transcription forms and remodels supercoiling domains unfolding large-scale chromatin structures

C Naughton, N Avlonitis, S Corless… - Nature structural & …, 2013 - nature.com
DNA supercoiling is an inherent consequence of twisting DNA and is critical for regulating
gene expression and DNA replication. However, DNA supercoiling at a genomic scale in …

Single nucleosome imaging reveals loose genome chromatin networks via active RNA polymerase II

R Nagashima, K Hibino, SS Ashwin, M Babokhov… - Journal of Cell …, 2019 - rupress.org
Although chromatin organization and dynamics play a critical role in gene transcription, how
they interplay remains unclear. To approach this issue, we investigated genome-wide …