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Heterochromatin: an epigenetic point of view in aging [PDF]

open access: goldExperimental and Molecular Medicine, 2020
Aging is an inevitable process of life. Defined by progressive physiological and functional loss of tissues and organs, aging increases the risk of mortality for the organism.
Jong‐Hyuk Lee   +3 more
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Imaging the response to DNA damage in heterochromatin domains reveals core principles of heterochromatin maintenance

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
The heterochromatin compartment is key for genome stability and cell fate transitions. Here, by tracking the heterochromatin response to UV damage in real time, the authors reveal how heterochromatin features are preserved following a genotoxic stress ...
Anna Fortuny   +6 more
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Heterochromatin as an Important Driver of Genome Organization

open access: yesFrontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020
Heterochromatin is a constituent of eukaryotic genomes with functions spanning from gene expression silencing to constraining DNA replication and repair.
Andrés Penagos-Puig   +1 more
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Establishment of H3K9-methylated heterochromatin and its functions in tissue differentiation and maintenance

open access: yesNature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2022
Heterochromatin is characterized by dimethylated or trimethylated histone H3 Lys9 (H3K9me2 or H3K9me3, respectively) and is found at transposable elements, satellite repeats and genes, where it ensures their transcriptional silencing.
Jan Padeken   +2 more
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The regional sequestration of heterochromatin structural proteins is critical to form and maintain silent chromatin

open access: yesEpigenetics & Chromatin, 2022
Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe are good models for heterochromatin study. In S. pombe, H3K9 methylation and Swi6, an ortholog of mammalian HP1, lead to heterochromatin formation. However, S.
Junsoo Oh   +3 more
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Heterochromatin organization and phase separation

open access: yesThe Nucleus, 2023
The eukaryotic nucleus displays a variety of membraneless compartments with distinct biomolecular composition and specific cellular activities. Emerging evidence indicates that protein-based liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) plays an essential role ...
Hui Zhang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Global regulation of heterochromatin spreading by Leo1 [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Biology, 2015
Heterochromatin plays important roles in eukaryotic genome regulation. However, the repressive nature of heterochromatin combined with its propensity to self-propagate necessitates robust mechanisms to contain heterochromatin within defined boundaries ...
Laure Verrier   +6 more
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Constitutive Heterochromatin in Eukaryotic Genomes: A Mine of Transposable Elements

open access: yesCells, 2022
Transposable elements (TEs) are abundant components of constitutive heterochromatin of the most diverse evolutionarily distant organisms. TEs enrichment in constitutive heterochromatin was originally described in the model organism Drosophila ...
René Massimiliano Marsano   +1 more
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The proper splicing of RNAi factors is critical for pericentric heterochromatin assembly in fission yeast. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Genetics, 2014
Heterochromatin preferentially assembles at repetitive DNA elements, playing roles in transcriptional silencing, recombination suppression, and chromosome segregation.
Scott P Kallgren   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

DNA Double-Strand Break Repair: All Roads Lead to HeterochROMAtin Marks

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics, 2021
In response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), chromatin modifications orchestrate DNA repair pathways thus safeguarding genome integrity. Recent studies have uncovered a key role for heterochromatin marks and associated factors in shaping DSB repair ...
Pierre Caron   +2 more
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