New insights into nucleosome and chromatin structure: an ordered state or a disordered affair?

K Luger, ML Dechassa, DJ Tremethick - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2012 - nature.com
The compaction of genomic DNA into chromatin has profound implications for the regulation
of key processes such as transcription, replication and DNA repair. Nucleosomes, the …

DNA structure and function

A Travers, G Muskhelishvili - The FEBS journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The proposal of a double‐helical structure for DNA over 60 years ago provided an eminently
satisfying explanation for the heritability of genetic information. But why is DNA, and not …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin fibers are formed by heterogeneous groups of nucleosomes in vivo

MA Ricci, C Manzo, MF García-Parajo, M Lakadamyali… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Nucleosomes help structure chromosomes by compacting DNA into fibers. To gain insight
into how nucleosomes are arranged in vivo, we combined quantitative super-resolution …

Nucleosome plasticity is a critical element of chromatin liquid–liquid phase separation and multivalent nucleosome interactions

SE Farr, EJ Woods, JA Joseph, A Garaizar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is an important mechanism that helps explain the
membraneless compartmentalization of the nucleus. Because chromatin compaction and …

Histone H2B ubiquitylation disrupts local and higher-order chromatin compaction

B Fierz, C Chatterjee, RK McGinty… - Nature chemical …, 2011 - nature.com
Regulation of chromatin structure involves histone posttranslational modifications that can
modulate intrinsic properties of the chromatin fiber to change the chromatin state. We used …

Chromatin higher-order structure and dynamics

CL Woodcock, RP Ghosh - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The primary role of the nucleus as an information storage, retrieval, and replication site
requires the physical organization and compaction of meters of DNA. Although it has been …

Recent advances in magnetic tweezers

I De Vlaminck, C Dekker - Annual review of biophysics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Since their first demonstration of manipulation and mechanical coiling of a single DNA
molecule, magnetic tweezers have become a popular and widely used single-molecule …

Columnar structure of human telomeric chromatin

A Soman, SY Wong, N Korolev, W Surya, S Lattmann… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Telomeres, the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes, play pivotal parts in ageing and cancer
and are targets of DNA damage and the DNA damage response,,,–. Little is known about the …

Chromatin structure: does the 30-nm fibre exist in vivo?

K Maeshima, S Hihara, M Eltsov - Current opinion in cell biology, 2010 - Elsevier
A long strand of DNA is wrapped around the core histone and forms a nucleosome.
Although the nucleosome has long been assumed to be folded into 30-nm chromatin fibres …

Uncovering the forces between nucleosomes using DNA origami

JJ Funke, P Ketterer, C Lieleg, S Schunter, P Korber… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Revealing the energy landscape for nucleosome association may contribute to the
understanding of higher-order chromatin structures and their impact on genome regulation …