Chromatin and transcription in yeast

OJ Rando, F Winston - Genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the mechanisms by which chromatin structure controls eukaryotic
transcription has been an intense area of investigation for the past 25 years. Many of the key …

Sin3: master scaffold and transcriptional corepressor

A Grzenda, G Lomberk, JS Zhang, R Urrutia - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2009 - Elsevier
Sin3 was isolated over two decades ago as a negative regulator of transcription in budding
yeast. Subsequent research has established the protein as a master transcriptional scaffold …

Arabidopsis WRKY38 and WRKY62 Transcription Factors Interact with Histone Deacetylase 19 in Basal Defense

KC Kim, Z Lai, B Fan, Z Chen - The Plant Cell, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Arabidopsis thaliana WRKY38 and WRKY62, encoding two structurally similar type III WRKY
transcription factors, are induced in a Nonexpressor of PR Gene1 (NPR1)–dependent …

Dissecting DNA damage response pathways by analysing protein localization and abundance changes during DNA replication stress

JM Tkach, A Yimit, AY Lee, M Riffle, M Costanzo… - Nature cell …, 2012 - nature.com
Relocalization of proteins is a hallmark of the DNA damage response. We use high-
throughput microscopic screening of the yeast GFP fusion collection to develop a systems …

SirT1 regulation of antioxidant genes is dependent on the formation of a FoxO3a/PGC-1α complex

Y Olmos, FJ Sánchez-Gómez, B Wild… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2013 - liebertpub.com
SirT1 is a class III histone deacetylase that has been implicated in metabolic and reactive
oxygen species control. In the vasculature it has been shown to decrease endothelial …

Human LSD2/KDM1b/AOF1 regulates gene transcription by modulating intragenic H3K4me2 methylation

R Fang, AJ Barbera, Y Xu, M Rutenberg, T Leonor, Q Bi… - Molecular cell, 2010 - cell.com
Dynamic histone H3K4 methylation is an important epigenetic component of transcriptional
regulation. However, most of our current understanding of this histone mark is confined to …

SIRT1 regulates the function of the Nijmegen breakage syndrome protein

Z Yuan, X Zhang, N Sengupta, WS Lane, E Seto - Molecular cell, 2007 - cell.com
Summary MRE11-RAD50-NBS1 (MRN) is a conserved nuclease complex that exhibits
properties of a DNA damage sensor and is critical in regulating cellular responses to DNA …

Phosphorylated Pol II CTD recruits multiple HDACs, including Rpd3C (S), for methylation-dependent deacetylation of ORF nucleosomes

CK Govind, H Qiu, DS Ginsburg, C Ruan, K Hofmeyer… - Molecular cell, 2010 - cell.com
Methylation of histone H3 by Set1 and Set2 is required for deacetylation of nucleosomes in
coding regions by histone deacetylase complexes (HDACs) Set3C and Rpd3C (S) …

Hyphal Development in Candida albicans Requires Two Temporally Linked Changes in Promoter Chromatin for Initiation and Maintenance

Y Lu, C Su, A Wang, H Liu - PLoS biology, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Phenotypic plasticity is common in development. For Candida albicans, the most common
cause of invasive fungal infections in humans, morphological plasticity is its defining feature …

The multifunctional Ccr4–Not complex directly promotes transcription elongation

JA Kruk, A Dutta, J Fu, DS Gilmour… - Genes & …, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The Ccr4–Not complex has been implicated in the control of multiple steps of mRNA
metabolism; however, its functions in transcription remain ambiguous. The discovery that …