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Heterochromatin in plant meiosis
NucleusHeterochromatin 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.
Cong Wang +3 more
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Heterochromatin Dynamics [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2003 Heterochromatin is usually thought of as a stable and inactive region of the genome.
Tobias Straub +2 more
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The Cell Biology of Heterochromatin
Cells, 2022 A conserved feature of virtually all higher eukaryotes is that the centromeres are embedded in heterochromatin. Here we provide evidence that this tight association between pericentric heterochromatin and the centromere is essential for proper metaphase ...
Brandt Warecki, William Sullivan
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Global regulation of heterochromatin spreading by Leo1 [PDF]
Open 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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Heterochromatin organization and phase separation
The 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
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RNAi and Heterochromatin Assembly [PDF]
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2015 The involvement of RNA interference (RNAi) in heterochromatin formation has become clear largely through studies in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and plants like Arabidopsis thaliana. This article discusses how heterochromatic small interfering RNAs are produced and how the RNAi machinery participates in the formation and function of ...
Robert, Martienssen, Danesh, Moazed
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Epigenetics & 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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Dynamic de novo heterochromatin assembly and disassembly at replication forks ensures fork stability
Nature Cell Biology, 2023 Chromatin is dynamically reorganized when DNA replication forks are challenged. However, the process of epigenetic reorganization and its implication for fork stability is poorly understood.
Vincent Gaggioli +20 more
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Heterochromatin revisited [PDF]
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 The formation of heterochromatin, which requires methylation of histone H3 at lysine 9 and the subsequent recruitment of chromodomain proteins such as heterochromatin protein HP1, serves as a model for the role of histone modifications and chromatin assembly in epigenetic control of the genome.
Shiv I S, Grewal, Songtao, Jia
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Different behaviour of C-banded peri-centromeric heterochromatin between sex chromosomes and autosomes in Polyphagan beetles [PDF]
Comparative Cytogenetics, 2019 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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