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  1. Content type: Research

    Anti-Silencing Factor 1 (ASF1) is a conserved H3–H4 histone chaperone involved in both Replication-Coupled and Replication-Independent (RI) nucleosome assembly pathways. At DNA replication forks, ASF1 plays an...

    Authors: Béatrice Horard, Laure Sapey-Triomphe, Emilie Bonnefoy and Benjamin Loppin

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:19

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    Heterochromatin, which is formed when tri-methyl lysine 9 of histone H3 (H3K9me3) is bound by heterochromatin 1 proteins (HP1s), plays an important role in differentiation and senescence by silencing cell cycl...

    Authors: Kyohei Oyama, Danny El-Nachef, Chen Fang, Hidemi Kajimoto, Jeremy P. Brown, Prim B. Singh and W. Robb MacLellan

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:18

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    The centromere is the specialized chromatin region that directs chromosome segregation. The kinetochore assembles on the centromere, attaching chromosomes to microtubules in mitosis. The centromere position is...

    Authors: Jing Zhu, Kevin Chi Lok Cheng and Karen Wing Yee Yuen

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:16

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    Meiosis is a specialized germ cell cycle that generates haploid gametes. In the initial stage of meiosis, meiotic prophase I (MPI), homologous chromosomes pair and recombine. Extensive changes in chromatin in ...

    Authors: Valeriya Gaysinskaya, Brendan F. Miller, Chiara De Luca, Godfried W. van der Heijden, Kasper D. Hansen and Alex Bortvin

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:15

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    During Drosophila spermatogenesis, testis-specific meiotic arrest complex (tMAC) and testis-specific TBP-associated factors (tTAF) contribute to activation of hundreds of genes required for meiosis and spermio...

    Authors: Petr P. Laktionov, Daniil A. Maksimov, Stanislav E. Romanov, Polina A. Antoshina, Olga V. Posukh, Helen White-Cooper, Dmitry E. Koryakov and Stepan N. Belyakin

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:14

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    DNA methylation plays a vital role in the cell, but loss-of-function mutations of the maintenance methyltransferase DNMT1 in normal human cells are lethal, precluding target identification, and existing hypomorph...

    Authors: Karla M. O’Neill, Rachelle E. Irwin, Sarah-Jayne Mackin, Sara-Jayne Thursby, Avinash Thakur, Ciske Bertens, Laura Masala, Jayne E. P. Loughery, Darragh G. McArt and Colum P. Walsh

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:12

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    Eukaryotic transcription is regulated through two complexes, the general transcription factor IID (TFIID) and the coactivator Spt–Ada–Gcn5 acetyltransferase (SAGA). Recent findings confirm that both TFIID and ...

    Authors: Varinia García-Molinero, José García-Martínez, Rohit Reja, Pedro Furió-Tarí, Oreto Antúnez, Vinesh Vinayachandran, Ana Conesa, B. Franklin Pugh, José E. Pérez-Ortín and Susana Rodríguez-Navarro

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:13

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    Controlled modulation of nucleosomal DNA accessibility via post-translational modifications (PTM) is a critical component to many cellular functions. Charge-altering PTMs in the globular histone core—including...

    Authors: Andrew T. Fenley, Ramu Anandakrishnan, Yared H. Kidane and Alexey V. Onufriev

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:11

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    The chromatin remodelers of the SWI/SNF family are critical transcriptional regulators. Recognition of lysine acetylation through a bromodomain (BRD) component is key to SWI/SNF function; in most eukaryotes, t...

    Authors: Alejandro Saettone, Jyoti Garg, Jean-Philippe Lambert, Syed Nabeel-Shah, Marcelo Ponce, Alyson Burtch, Cristina Thuppu Mudalige, Anne-Claude Gingras, Ronald E. Pearlman and Jeffrey Fillingham

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:10

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    Environmental toxicants such as DDT have been shown to induce the epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease (e.g., obesity) through the germline. The current study was designed to investigate the DDT...

    Authors: Michael K. Skinner, Millissia Ben Maamar, Ingrid Sadler-Riggleman, Daniel Beck, Eric Nilsson, Margaux McBirney, Rachel Klukovich, Yeming Xie, Chong Tang and Wei Yan

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:8

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    It has been reported that USP7 (ubiquitin-specific protease 7) prevents ubiquitylation and degradation of DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) by direct binding of USP7 to the glycine-lysine (GK) repeats that join ...

    Authors: Olya Yarychkivska, Omid Tavana, Wei Gu and Timothy H. Bestor

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:9

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    The KZFP/KAP1 (KRAB zinc finger proteins/KRAB-associated protein 1) system plays a central role in repressing transposable elements (TEs) and maintaining parent-of-origin DNA methylation at imprinting control ...

    Authors: Andrea Coluccio, Gabriela Ecco, Julien Duc, Sandra Offner, Priscilla Turelli and Didier Trono

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:7

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    DNA shape analysis has demonstrated the potential to reveal structure-based mechanisms of protein–DNA binding. However, information about the influence of chemical modification of DNA is limited. Cytosine meth...

    Authors: Satyanarayan Rao, Tsu-Pei Chiu, Judith F. Kribelbauer, Richard S. Mann, Harmen J. Bussemaker and Remo Rohs

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:6

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    The estrogen receptor (ER) is a ligand-dependant transcription factor expressed in many breast cancers and is the target of many endocrine-based cancer therapies. Genome-wide studies have shown that the ER bin...

    Authors: Bart Kolendowski, Haider Hassan, Milica Krstic, Majdina Isovic, Gobi Thillainadesan, Ann F. Chambers, Alan B. Tuck and Joseph Torchia

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:5

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  16. Content type: Methodology

    Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) occur broadly in the human proteome, and their biological outcome is often mediated indirectly by reader proteins that specifically bind to modified proteins and ...

    Authors: Agnieszka Anna Rawłuszko-Wieczorek, Franziska Knodel, Raluca Tamas, Arunkumar Dhayalan and Albert Jeltsch

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:4

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    It is well recognized that the interphase chromatin of higher eukaryotes folds into non-random configurations forming territories within the nucleus. Chromosome territories have biologically significant proper...

    Authors: Nicholas Allen Kinney, Igor V. Sharakhov and Alexey V. Onufriev

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:3

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  18. Content type: Methodology

    Histones organize DNA into chromatin through a variety of processes. Among them, a vast diversity of histone variants can be incorporated into chromatin and finely modulate its organization and functionality. ...

    Authors: Sara El Kennani, Annie Adrait, Olga Permiakova, Anne-Marie Hesse, Côme Ialy-Radio, Myriam Ferro, Virginie Brun, Julie Cocquet, Jérôme Govin and Delphine Pflieger

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:2

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    The timing of the first cell divisions may predict the developmental potential of an embryo, including its ability to establish pregnancy. Besides differences related to metabolism, stress, and survival, embr...

    Authors: Jessica Ispada, Camila Bruna de Lima, Marc-André Sirard, Patrícia Kubo Fontes, Marcelo Fábio Gouveia Nogueira, Kelly Annes and Marcella Pecora Milazzotto

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2018 11:1

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    The main chromatin unit, the nucleosome, can be modulated by the incorporation of histone variants that, in combination with posttranslational histones modifications, determine epigenetics properties of chroma...

    Authors: Viacheslav M. Morozov, Serena Giovinazzi and Alexander M. Ishov

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:63

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  21. Content type: Research

    SWI/SNF is a large heterogeneous multi-subunit chromatin remodeling complex. It consists of multiple sets of mutually exclusive components. Understanding how loss of one sibling of a mutually exclusive pair af...

    Authors: Jesse R. Raab, John S. Runge, Camarie C. Spear and Terry Magnuson

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:62

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  23. Content type: Research

    The role of epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation during vertebrate sexual development is far from being clear. Using the zebrafish model, we tested the effects of one of the most common DNA methylt...

    Authors: Laia Ribas, Konstantinos Vanezis, Marco Antonio Imués and Francesc Piferrer

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:59

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  24. Content type: Methodology

    DNA methylation is a fundamental epigenetic modification that is involved in many biological systems such as differentiation and disease. We and others recently showed that some transcription factors (TFs) are...

    Authors: Takahiro Suzuki, Shiori Maeda, Erina Furuhata, Yuri Shimizu, Hajime Nishimura, Mami Kishima and Harukazu Suzuki

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:60

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  25. Content type: Methodology

    TFIIS stimulates RNA cleavage by RNA polymerase II and promotes the resolution of backtracking events. TFIIS acts in the chromatin context, but its contribution to the chromatin landscape has not yet been inve...

    Authors: Gabriel Gutiérrez, Gonzalo Millán-Zambrano, Daniel A. Medina, Antonio Jordán-Pla, José E. Pérez-Ortín, Xenia Peñate and Sebastián Chávez

    Citation: Epigenetics & Chromatin 2017 10:58

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