Dosage compensation of the X chromosome: a complex epigenetic assignment involving chromatin regulators and long noncoding RNAs

M Samata, A Akhtar - Annual review of biochemistry, 2018 - annualreviews.org
X chromosome regulation represents a prime example of an epigenetic phenomenon where
coordinated regulation of a whole chromosome is required. In flies, this is achieved by …

Dosage Compensation in Drosophila—a Model for the Coordinate Regulation of Transcription

MI Kuroda, A Hilfiker, JC Lucchesi - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The sex chromosomes have special significance in the history of genetics. The
chromosomal basis of inheritance was firmly established when Calvin Bridges demonstrated …

RNA nucleation by MSL2 induces selective X chromosome compartmentalization

CIK Valsecchi, MF Basilicata, P Georgiev, A Gaub… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Confinement of the X chromosome to a territory for dosage compensation is a prime
example of how subnuclear compartmentalization is used to regulate transcription at the …

Interaction of MLE with CLAMP zinc finger is involved in proper MSL proteins binding to chromosomes in Drosophila

E Tikhonova, A Revel-Muroz, P Georgiev… - Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Drosophila male-specific lethal (MSL) complex binds to the male X chromosome to
activate transcription. It comprises five proteins (MSL1, MSL2, MSL3, male absent on the first …

PionX sites mark the X chromosome for dosage compensation

R Villa, T Schauer, P Smialowski, T Straub, PB Becker - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The rules defining which small fraction of related DNA sequences can be selectively bound
by a transcription factor are poorly understood. One of the most challenging tasks in DNA …

Structural basis for LIN54 recognition of CHR elements in cell cycle-regulated promoters

AH Marceau, JG Felthousen, PD Goetsch… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The MuvB complex recruits transcription factors to activate or repress genes with cell cycle-
dependent expression patterns. MuvB contains the DNA-binding protein LIN54, which …

Factor cooperation for chromosome discrimination in Drosophila

C Albig, E Tikhonova, S Krause… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Transcription regulators select their genomic binding sites from a large pool of similar, non-
functional sequences. Although general principles that allow such discrimination are known …

Expansion of GA Dinucleotide Repeats Increases the Density of CLAMP Binding Sites on the X-Chromosome to Promote Drosophila Dosage Compensation

G Kuzu, EG Kaye, J Chery, T Siggers, L Yang… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Dosage compensation is an essential process that equalizes transcript levels of X-linked
genes between sexes by forming a domain of coordinated gene expression. Throughout the …

Differential occupancy of two GA-binding proteins promotes targeting of the Drosophila dosage compensation complex to the male X chromosome

EG Kaye, M Booker, JV Kurland, AE Conicella… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Little is known about how variation in sequence composition alters transcription factor
occupancy to precisely recruit large transcription complexes. A key model for understanding …

Investigation of protein family relationships with deep learning

I Ponamareva, A Andreeva, ML Bileschi… - Bioinformatics …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation In this article, we propose a method for finding similarities between Pfam families
based on the pre-trained neural network ProtENN2. We use the model ProtENN2 per …