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Physical Review Letters, 2008 We present a statistical-mechanical model for the positioning of nucleosomes along genomic DNA molecules as a function of the strength of the binding potential and the chemical potential of the nucleosomes. We show that a significant section of the DNA is composed of two-level nucleosome switching regions where the nucleosome distribution undergoes a ...
David J, Schwab +3 more
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Specialization of the chromatin remodeler RSC to mobilize partially-unwrapped nucleosomes
eLife, 2020 SWI/SNF-family chromatin remodeling complexes, such as S. cerevisiae RSC, slide and eject nucleosomes to regulate transcription. Within nucleosomes, stiff DNA sequences confer spontaneous partial unwrapping, prompting whether and how SWI/SNF-family ...
Alisha Schlichter +3 more
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Biomolecules, 2022 Background: Neutrophil extracellular traps’ (NETs’) formation is a mechanism of defense that neutrophils deploy as an alternative to phagocytosis, to constrain the spread of microorganisms.
Laure Morimont +14 more
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Novel mechanistic insights into the role of Mer2 as the keystone of meiotic DNA break formation
eLife, 2021 In meiosis, DNA double-strand break (DSB) formation by Spo11 initiates recombination and enables chromosome segregation. Numerous factors are required for Spo11 activity, and couple the DSB machinery to the development of a meiosis-specific ‘axis ...
Dorota Rousová +10 more
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ISRN Molecular Biology, 2012 Nucleosome positioning is not only related to genomic DNA compaction but also to other biological functions. After the chromatin is digested by micrococcal nuclease, nucleosomal (nucleosome-bound) DNA fragments can be sequenced and mapped on the genomic DNA sequence.
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Epigenetics, 2018 Previous work in Saccharomyces cerevisiae identified three residues located in close proximity to each other on the side of the nucleosome whose integrity is required for proper association of the Spt16 component of the FACT complex across transcribed ...
Eugene Nyamugenda +8 more
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997 Archaeacontain histones that have primary sequences in common with eukaryal nucleosome core histones and a three-dimensional structure that is essentially only the histone fold. Here we report the results of experiments that document that archaeal histones compact DNAin vivointo structures similar to the structure formed by the histone (H3+H4)2tetramer
S L, Pereira +3 more
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Epichromatin and chromomeres: a ‘fuzzy’ perspective [PDF]
Open Biology, 2018 ‘Epichromatin’, the surface of chromatin beneath the interphase nuclear envelope (NE) or at the surface of mitotic chromosomes, was discovered by immunostaining with a specific bivalent mouse monoclonal anti-nucleosome antibody (mAb PL2-6). ‘Chromomeres’,
Donald E. Olins, Ada L. Olins
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Structural characterization of H3K56Q nucleosomes and nucleosomal arrays [PDF]
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 2010 The post-translational modification of histones is a key mechanism for the modulation of DNA accessibility. Acetylated lysine 56 in histone H3 is associated with nucleosome assembly during replication and DNA repair, and is thus likely to predominate in regions of chromatin containing nucleosome-free regions.
Shinya, Watanabe +6 more
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Control of nucleosome movement: To space or not to space nucleosomes? [PDF]
Epigenetics, 2010 A key feature of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes is how they control the ability of the complex to translocate along DNA within the context of a nucleosome. Although these complexes generally initiate DNA translocation near the dyad axis of the nucleosome, the progression and eventual termination is regulated in quite distinct ways.
Punit, Prasad, Blaine, Bartholomew
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