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Heterochromatin is a critical chromatin compartment, whose integrity governs genome stability and cell fate transitions. How heterochromatin features, including higher-order chromatin folding and histone modifications associated with transcriptional ...
A. Fortuny+6 more
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Heterochromatin in plant meiosis
Heterochromatin is an organizational property of eukaryotic chromosomes, characterized by extensive DNA and histone modifications, that is associated with the silencing of transposable elements and repetitive sequences. Maintaining heterochromatin is crucial for ensuring genomic integrity and stability during the cell cycle.
Cong Wang+3 more
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Heterochromatin as an Important Driver of Genome Organization
Heterochromatin is a constituent of eukaryotic genomes with functions spanning from gene expression silencing to constraining DNA replication and repair.
Andrés Pénagos-Puig, M. Furlan-Magaril
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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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Global regulation of heterochromatin spreading by Leo1 [PDF]
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
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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Different behaviour of C-banded peri-centromeric heterochromatin between sex chromosomes and autosomes in Polyphagan beetles [PDF]
Heterochromatin variation was studied after C-banding of male karyotypes with a XY sex formula from 224 species belonging to most of the main families of Coleoptera.
Anne-Marie Dutrillaux+1 more
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The proper splicing of RNAi factors is critical for pericentric heterochromatin assembly in fission yeast. [PDF]
Heterochromatin preferentially assembles at repetitive DNA elements, playing roles in transcriptional silencing, recombination suppression, and chromosome segregation.
Scott P Kallgren+8 more
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Maternal depletion of Piwi, a component of the RNAi system, impacts heterochromatin formation in Drosophila. [PDF]
A persistent question in epigenetics is how heterochromatin is targeted for assembly at specific domains, and how that chromatin state is faithfully transmitted.
Tingting Gu, Sarah C R Elgin
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DNA Double-Strand Break Repair: All Roads Lead to HeterochROMAtin Marks
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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