Writing, erasing and reading histone lysine methylations

K Hyun, J Jeon, K Park, J Kim - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Histone modifications are key epigenetic regulatory features that have important roles in
many cellular events. Lysine methylations mark various sites on the tail and globular …

The interplay of histone modifications–writers that read

T Zhang, S Cooper, N Brockdorff - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Histones are subject to a vast array of posttranslational modifications including acetylation,
methylation, phosphorylation, and ubiquitylation. The writers of these modifications play …

Perceiving the epigenetic landscape through histone readers

CA Musselman, ME Lalonde, J Côté… - Nature structural & …, 2012 - nature.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of histones provide a fine-tuned mechanism for
regulating chromatin structure and dynamics. PTMs can alter direct interactions between …

Histone modifications for human epigenome analysis

H Kimura - Journal of human genetics, 2013 - nature.com
Histones function both positively and negatively in the regulation of gene expression, mainly
governed by post-translational modifications on specific amino acid residues. Although …

Transcription shapes genome-wide histone acetylation patterns

BJE Martin, J Brind'Amour, A Kuzmin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Histone acetylation is a ubiquitous hallmark of transcription, but whether the link between
histone acetylation and transcription is causal or consequential has not been addressed …

H3K9 and H3K14 acetylation co-occur at many gene regulatory elements, while H3K14ac marks a subset of inactive inducible promoters in mouse embryonic stem …

K Karmodiya, AR Krebs, M Oulad-Abdelghani… - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Transcription regulation in pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells is a complex
process that involves multitude of regulatory layers, one of which is post-translational …

Is H3K4me3 instructive for transcription activation?

FS Howe, H Fischl, SC Murray, J Mellor - Bioessays, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tri‐methylation of lysine 4 on histone H3 (H3K4me3) is a near‐universal chromatin
modification at the transcription start site of active genes in eukaryotes from yeast to man …

CRISPR screens reveal convergent targeting strategies against evolutionarily distinct chemoresistance in cancer

C Zhong, WJ Jiang, Y Yao, Z Li, Y Li, S Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Resistance to chemotherapy has been a major hurdle that limits therapeutic benefits for
many types of cancer. Here we systematically identify genetic drivers underlying …

Molecular complexes at euchromatin, heterochromatin and centromeric chromatin

O Morrison, J Thakur - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chromatin consists of a complex of DNA and histone proteins as its core components and
plays an important role in both packaging DNA and regulating DNA metabolic pathways …

Chemical and biochemical perspectives of protein lysine methylation

M Luo - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lysine methylation is a distinct posttranslational modification that causes minimal
changes in the size and electrostatic status of lysine residues. Lysine methylation plays …