Mechanisms of Inheritance of Chromatin States: From Yeast to Human

HD Madhani - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2025 - annualreviews.org
In this article I review mechanisms that underpin epigenetic inheritance of CpG methylation
and histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) in chromatin in fungi and mammals. CpG …

Dynamic histone modification patterns coordinating DNA processes

L López-Hernández, P Toolan-Kerr, AJ Bannister… - Molecular Cell, 2025 - cell.com
Significant effort has been spent attempting to unravel the causal relationship between
histone post-translational modifications and fundamental DNA processes, including …

Disabling leading and lagging strand histone transmission results in parental histones loss and reduced cell plasticity and viability

L Kollenstart, A Biran, N Alcaraz, N Reverón-Gómez… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
In the process of DNA replication, the first steps in restoring the chromatin landscape involve
parental histone recycling and new histone deposition. Disrupting histone recycling to either …

The single-molecule accessibility landscape of newly replicated mammalian chromatin

MS Ostrowski, MG Yang, CP McNally, NJ Abdulhay… - Cell, 2025 - cell.com
We present replication-aware single-molecule accessibility map** (RASAM), a method to
nondestructively measure replication status and protein-DNA interactions on chromatin …

Mutations in the DNA processivity factor POL30 predisposes the FLO11 locus to epigenetic instability in S. cerevisiae

SM Sauty, A Fisher, A Dolson… - Journal of Cell …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
The FLO genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are repressed by heterochromatin formation,
involving histone deacetylases, transcription factors and non-coding RNAs. Here, we report …

A tale of two strands: Decoding chromatin replication through strand-specific sequencing

Z Li, Z Zhang - Molecular Cell, 2025 - cell.com
DNA replication, a fundamental process in all living organisms, proceeds with continuous
synthesis of the leading strand by DNA polymerase ε (Pol ε) and discontinuous synthesis of …

A systematic quantitative approach comprehensively defines domain-specific functional pathways linked to Schizosaccharomyces pombe heterochromatin regulation …

A Muhammad, Z Sarkadi, A Mazumder… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Heterochromatin plays a critical role in regulating gene expression and maintaining genome
integrity. While structural and enzymatic components have been linked to heterochromatin …

[HTML][HTML] Replication-transcription symbiosis in the mammalian nucleus: The art of living together

J Segura, M Gómez - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2025 - Elsevier
Highlights•Elongating transcription and replication machineries mediate the recycling of
nucleosomes behind them.•RNAPII can be recycled to nascent strands upon replication fork …

[HTML][HTML] Assembly, Activation, and Helicase Actions of MCM2-7: Transition from Inactive MCM2-7 Double Hexamers to Active Replication Forks

Z You, H Masai - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary MCM2-7, evolutionarily conserved and essential for DNA replication,
functions as the central factor for the eukaryotic replicative DNA helicase. Here, we …

The impact of cell states on heterochromatin dynamics

A Trouth, GMB Veronezi… - Biochemical …, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Establishing, maintaining, and removing histone post-translational modifications associated
with heterochromatin is critical for sha** genomic structure and function as a cell …