Chromatin

Links to selected research papers and review-type articles from the Nature Publishing Group in the field of chromatin can be accessed below. Selected articles are free until 31 May 2006.

  • Reviews

    • The diverse functions of histone lysine methylation

      Cyrus Martin & Yi Zhang

      Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 6, 838−849 (2005); doi:10.1038/nrm1761

    • The role of chromatin structure in regulating the expression of clustered genes

      Duncan Sproul, Nick Gilbert & Wendy A. Bickmore

      Nature Reviews Genetics 6, 775−781 (2005); doi:10.1038/nrg1688

  • Perspectives

    • Regulated nucleosome mobility and the histone code

      Michael S Cosgrove, Jef D Boeke & Cynthia Wolberger

      Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 11, 1037−1043 (2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb851

  • Commentaries

    • Reading signals on the nucleosome with a new nomenclature for modified histones

      Bryan M Turner

      Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 12, 110−112 (2005); doi:10.1038/nsmb0205-110

  • Research Papers

    • LSD1 demethylates repressive histone marks to promote androgen-receptor-dependent transcription

      Eric Metzger, Melanie Wissmann, Na Yin, Judith M. Müller, Robert Schneider, Antoine H. F. M. Peters, Thomas Günther, Reinhard Buettner & Roland Schüle

      Nature 437, 436−439 (15 September 2005); doi:10.1038/nature04020

    • Genome-scale profiling of histone H3.3 replacement patterns

      Yoshiko Mito, Jorja G Henikoff & Steven Henikoff

      Nature Genetics 37, 1090−1097 (2005); doi:10.1038/ng1637

    • Ubiquitin ligase component Cul4 associates with Clr4 histone methyltransferase to assemble heterochromatin

      Songtao Jia, Ryuji Kobayashi & Shiv I. S. Grewal

      Nature Cell Biology 7, 1007−1013 (2005); doi:10.1038/ncb1300

    • Chromatin remodeling through directional DNA translocation from an internal nucleosomal site

      Anjanabha Saha, Jacqueline Wittmeyer & Bradley R Cairns

      Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 12, 747−755 (2005); doi:10.1038/nsmb973

    • A 'loop recapture' mechanism for ACF-dependent nucleosome remodeling

      Ralf Strohner, Malte Wachsmuth, Karoline Dachauer, Jacek Mazurkiewicz, Julia Hochstatter, Karsten Rippe & Gernot Längst

      Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 12, 683−690 (2005); doi:10.1038/nsmb966

    • X-ray structure of a tetranucleosome and its implications for the chromatin fibre

      Thomas Schalch, Sylwia Duda, David F. Sargent & Timothy J. Richmond

      Nature 436, 138−141 (7 July 2005); doi:10.1038/nature03686

    • Loss of acetylation at Lys16 and trimethylation at Lys20 of histone H4 is a common hallmark of human cancer

      Mario F Fraga, Esteban Ballestar, Ana Villar-Garea, Manuel Boix-Chornet, Jesus Espada, Gunnar Schotta, Tiziana Bonaldi, Claire Haydon, Santiago Ropero, Kevin Petrie, N Gopalakrishna Iyer, Alberto Pérez-Rosado, Enrique Calvo, Juan A Lopez, Amparo Cano, Maria J Calasanz, Dolors Colomer, Miguel Ángel Piris, Natalie Ahn, Axel Imhof, Carlos Caldas, Thomas Jenuwein & Manel Esteller

      Nature Genetics 37, 391−400 (2005); doi:10.1038/ng1531

    • Role of the RB1 family in stabilizing histone methylation at constitutive heterochromatin

      Susana Gonzalo, Marta García-Cao, Mario F. Fraga, Gunnar Schotta, Antoine H.F.M. Peters, Shane E. Cotter, Raúl Eguía, Douglas C. Dean, Manel Esteller, Thomas Jenuwein & María A. Blasco

      Nature Cell Biology 7, 420−428 (2005); doi:10.1038/ncb1235

    • Brahma links the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex with MeCP2-dependent transcriptional silencing

      Harikrishnan K N, Maggie Z Chow, Emma K Baker, Sharmistha Pal, Sahar Bassal, Daniella Brasacchio, Li Wang, Jeff M Craig, Peter L Jones, Saïd Sif & Assam El-Osta

      Nature Genetics 37, 254−264 (2005); doi:10.1038/ng1516

    • The Williams syndrome transcription factor interacts with PCNA to target chromatin remodelling by ISWI to replication foci

      Raymond A. Poot, Ludmila Bozhenok, Debbie L.C. van den Berg, Søren Steffensen, Fernando Ferreira, Margaret Grimaldi, Nick Gilbert, Joao Ferreira & Patrick D. Varga-Weisz

      Nature Cell Biology 6, 1236−1244 (2004); doi:10.1038/ncb1196

    • Centromeric chromatin exhibits a histone modification pattern that is distinct from both euchromatin and heterochromatin

      Beth A Sullivan & Gary H Karpen

      Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 11, 1076−1083 (2004); doi:10.1038/nsmb845

  • News & Views

    • A milestone in the odyssey of higher-order chromatin structure

      Christopher L Woodcock

      Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 12, 639−640 (2005); doi:10.1038/nsmb0805-639

    • Out with the old, in with the new

      Jason D Lieb

      Nature Genetics 37, 1024−1025 (2005); doi:10.1038/ng1005-1024

    • SWItching off methylated DNA

      Paul A Wade

      Nature Genetics 37, 212−213 (2005); doi:10.1038/ng0305-212

  • Research Highlights

    • Forming a silent structure

      Rachel Smallridge

      Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 6, 675 (2005); doi:10.1038/nrm1726

    • The road to silence

      Shannon Amoils

      Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 6, 593 (2005); doi:10.1038/nrm1708

    • What lies at the core

      Arianne Heinrichs

      Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 6, 596−597 (2005); doi:10.1038/nrm1705

    • RB1 goes global

      Markus Wagner

      Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 6, 282 (2005); doi:10.1038/nrm1624

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