Regulation of chromatin structure by histone H3S10 phosphorylation

KM Johansen, J Johansen - Chromosome Research, 2006 - Springer
The epigenetic phospho-serine 10 modification of histone H3 has been a puzzle due to its
association with two apparently opposed chromatin states. It is found at elevated levels on …

Heterochromatin—many flavours, common themes

JM Craig - Bioessays, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Heterochromatin remains condensed throughout the cell cycle, is generally transcriptionally
inert and is built and maintained by groups of factors with each group member sharing a …

Genome map** and characterization of the Anopheles gambiae heterochromatin

MV Sharakhova, P George, IV Brusentsova, SC Leman… - BMC genomics, 2010 - Springer
Background Heterochromatin plays an important role in chromosome function and gene
regulation. Despite the availability of polytene chromosomes and genome sequence, the …

Cellular mechanism for targeting heterochromatin formation in Drosophila

JC Eissenberg, G Reuter - International review of cell and molecular …, 2009 - Elsevier
Near the end of their 1990 historical perspective article “60 Years of Mystery,” Spradling and
Karpen (1990) observe:“Recent progress in understanding variegation at the molecular …

TnaA, a trithorax group protein, modulates wingless expression in different regions of the Drosophila wing imaginal disc

M Rosales-Vega, D Reséndez-Pérez, M Zurita… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract wingless expression is exquisitely regulated by different factors and enhancers in
the imaginal wing discs of Drosophila melanogaster in four domains: the dorsal band, the …

SUUR joins separate subsets of PcG, HP1 and B-type lamin targets in Drosophila

AV Pindyurin, C Moorman, E de Wit… - Journal of cell …, 2007 - journals.biologists.com
Drosophila melanogaster Suppressor of Under-Replication (SuUR) gene encodes a protein
that modulates replicative properties of heterochromatin in endocycles of polytene cells. The …

Comparison of ultra-conserved elements in drosophilids and vertebrates

IV Makunin, VV Shloma, SJ Stephen, M Pheasant… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Metazoan genomes contain many ultra-conserved elements (UCEs), long sequences
identical between distant species. In this study we identified UCEs in drosophilid and …

[HTML][HTML] Polycomb group mutants exhibit mitotic defects in syncytial cell cycles of Drosophila embryos

E O'Dor, SA Beck, HW Brock - Developmental biology, 2006 - Elsevier
The Polycomb Group (PcG) of epigenetic regulators maintains the repressed state of Hox
genes during development of Drosophila, thereby maintaining the correct patterning of the …

Overexpression of the SuUR gene induces reversible modifications at pericentric, telomeric and intercalary heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster polytene …

IF Zhimulev, ES Belyaeva, VF Semeshin… - Journal of cell …, 2003 - journals.biologists.com
The SuUR (su ppressor of u nder r eplication) gene controls late replication and
underreplication of DNA in Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes: its mutation …

Super-resolution microscopy reveals stochastic initiation of replication in Drosophila polytene chromosomes

TD Kolesnikova, GV Pokholkova, VV Dovgan… - Chromosome …, 2022 - Springer
Studying the probability distribution of replication initiation along a chromosome is a huge
challenge. Drosophila polytene chromosomes in combination with super-resolution …