Search Results - "Musselman, Catherine"
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Histone Tail Conformations: A Fuzzy Affair with DNA
Published in Trends in biochemical sciences (Amsterdam. Regular ed.) (01-07-2021)“…The core histone tails are critical in chromatin structure and signaling. Studies over the past several decades have provided a wealth of information on the…”
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Perceiving the epigenetic landscape through histone readers
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (01-12-2012)“…Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) can directly influence histone-DNA and histone-histone interactions, or they can be targeted by protein…”
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Dynamic views of molecular recognition in protein-nucleic acid complexes
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Reading More than Histones: The Prevalence of Nucleic Acid Binding among Reader Domains
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (12-10-2018)“…The eukaryotic genome is packaged into the cell nucleus in the form of chromatin, a complex of genomic DNA and histone proteins. Chromatin structure regulation…”
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Single-Molecule Characterization of Cy3.5 -Cy5.5 Dye Pair for FRET Studies of Nucleic Acids and Nucleosomes
Published in Journal of fluorescence (01-03-2023)“…Single molecule FRET (Forster resonance energy transfer) is very powerful method for studying biomolecular binding dynamics and conformational transitions…”
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Nucleosome composition regulates the histone H3 tail conformational ensemble and accessibility
Published in Nucleic acids research (07-05-2021)“…Abstract Hexasomes and tetrasomes are intermediates in nucleosome assembly and disassembly. Their formation is promoted by histone chaperones, ATP-dependent…”
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Visualizing Conformational Ensembles of the Nucleosome by NMR
Published in ACS chemical biology (18-03-2022)“…The formation of chromatin not only compacts the eukaryotic genome into the nucleus but also provides a mechanism for the regulation of all DNA templated…”
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The conformation of the histone H3 tail inhibits association of the BPTF PHD finger with the nucleosome
Published in eLife (12-04-2018)“…Histone tails harbor a plethora of post-translational modifications that direct the function of chromatin regulators, which recognize them through effector…”
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Handpicking epigenetic marks with PHD fingers
Published in Nucleic acids research (01-11-2011)“…Plant homeodomain (PHD) fingers have emerged as one of the largest families of epigenetic effectors capable of recognizing or 'reading' post-translational…”
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Tcf1 and Lef1 transcription factors establish CD8+ T cell identity through intrinsic HDAC activity
Published in Nature immunology (01-06-2016)“…Xue and colleagues show that the transcription factors Tcf1 and Lef1 suppress CD4 + T lineage genes in CD8 + T cells through intrinsic histone deacetylase…”
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PBRM1 bromodomains associate with RNA to facilitate chromatin association
Published in Nucleic acids research (08-05-2023)“…Abstract PBRM1 is a subunit of the PBAF chromatin remodeling complex, which is mutated in 40–50% of clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients. It is thought to…”
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E-C coupling structural protein junctophilin-2 encodes a stress-adaptive transcription regulator
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (21-12-2018)“…Junctophilin-2 (JP2) is a structural protein required for normal excitation-contraction (E-C) coupling. After cardiac stress, JP2 is cleaved by the calcium…”
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Towards understanding methyllysine readout
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-08-2014)“…Lysine methylation is the most versatile covalent posttranslational modification (PTM) found in histones and non-histone proteins. Over the past decade a…”
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Characterization of functional disordered regions within chromatin-associated proteins
Published in iScience (19-02-2021)“…Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are abundant and play important roles in the function of chromatin-associated proteins (CAPs). These regions are often…”
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DNA binding drives the association of BRG1/hBRM bromodomains with nucleosomes
Published in Nature communications (14-07-2017)“…BRG1 and BRM, central components of the BAF (mSWI/SNF) chromatin remodelling complex, are critical in chromatin structure regulation. Here, we show that the…”
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Molecular basis for H3K36me3 recognition by the Tudor domain of PHF1
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (01-12-2012)“…The human Polycomb-like protein PHF1 has been implicated in transcription-regulatory and DNA damage repair pathways. A new study demonstrates that the Tudor…”
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Optimization of Ligands Using Focused DNA-Encoded Libraries To Develop a Selective, Cell-Permeable CBX8 Chromodomain Inhibitor
Published in ACS chemical biology (17-01-2020)“…Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) is critical for mediating gene expression during development. Five chromobox (CBX) homolog proteins, CBX2, CBX4, CBX6,…”
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The PHD finger of Spp1 mediates histone modification cross-talk
Published in Biochemical journal (28-08-2019)“…Binding of the Spp1 PHD finger to histone H3K4me3 is sensitive to adjacent post-translational modifications in the histone tail. This commentary discusses the…”
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Accessibility of the histone H3 tail in the nucleosome for binding of paired readers
Published in Nature communications (14-11-2017)“…Combinatorial polyvalent contacts of histone-binding domains or readers commonly mediate localization and activities of chromatin-associated proteins. A pair…”
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Evolutionary Conservation of Structural and Functional Coupling between the BRM AT-Hook and Bromodomain
Published in Journal of molecular biology (09-07-2021)“…[Display omitted] •The BAF complex contains multiple regulatory histone/DNA binding domains of unknown activity.•Several elements in the BRG1/BRM…”
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