Structure and Function of Centromeric and Pericentromeric Heterochromatin in Arabidopsis thaliana

Stress-induced structural changes in plant chromatin

(2015) Aline V Probst et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Establishment of Centromeric Chromatin by the CENP-A Assembly Factor CAL1 Requires FACT-Mediated Transcription

(2015) Chin-Chi Chen et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 occurs during translation

(2015) Carlos Rivera et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Point mutation impairs centromeric CENH3 loading and induces haploid plants

(2015) Raheleh Karimi-Ashtiyani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ArabidopsisMZT1 homologs GIP1 and GIP2 are essential for centromere architecture

(2015) Morgane Batzenschlager et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Light signaling controls nuclear architecture reorganization during seedling establishment

(2015) Clara Bourbousse et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sequence Features and Transcriptional Stalling within Centromere DNA Promote Establishment of CENP-A Chromatin

(2015) Sandra Catania et al.   PLoS Genetics

Naturally Occurring Differences in CENH3 Affect Chromosome Segregation in Zygotic Mitosis of Hybrids

(2015) Shamoni Maheshwari et al.   PLoS Genetics

Chromatin dynamics in pollen mother cells underpin a common scenario at the somatic-to-reproductive fate transition of both the male and female lineages in Arabidopsis

(2015) Wenjing She et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

NucleusJ: an ImageJ plugin for quantifying 3D images of interphase nuclei

(2014) Axel Poulet et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Histone Variant H2A.W Defines Heterochromatin and Promotes Chromatin Condensation in Arabidopsis

(2014) Ramesh Yelagandula et al.   CELL

Loading of the centromeric histone H3 variant during meiosis–how does it differ from mitosis?

(2014) Veit Schubert et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Centromere identity from the DNA point of view

(2014) Miroslav Plohl et al.   CHROMOSOMA

CAL1 is theDrosophilaCENP-A assembly factor

(2014) Chin-Chi Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Repetitive centromeric satellite RNA is essential for kinetochore formation and cell division

(2014) Silvana Rošić et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Hi-C Analysis in Arabidopsis Identifies the KNOT, a Structure with Similarities to the flamenco Locus of Drosophila

(2014) Stefan Grob et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Mislocalization of the Centromeric Histone Variant CenH3/CENP-A in Human Cells Depends on the Chaperone DAXX

(2014) Nicolas Lacoste et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The Functional Topography of the Arabidopsis Genome Is Organized in a Reduced Number of Linear Motifs of Chromatin States

(2014) J. Sequeira-Mendes et al.   PLANT CELL

The Novel Nuclear Envelope Protein KAKU4 Modulates Nuclear Morphology in Arabidopsis

(2014) C. Goto et al.   PLANT CELL

The AAA-ATPase molecular chaperone Cdc48/p97 disassembles sumoylated centromeres, decondenses heterochromatin, and activates ribosomal RNA genes

(2014) Zsuzsanna Mérai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Selective Methylation of Histone H3 Variant H3.1 Regulates Heterochromatin Replication

(2014) Y. Jacob et al.   SCIENCE

A long non-coding RNA is required for targeting centromeric protein A to the human centromere

(2014) Delphine Quénet et al.   eLife

GIP/MZT1 proteins orchestrate nuclear shaping

(2014) Morgane Batzenschlager et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Arabidopsis CROWDED NUCLEI (CRWN) proteins are required for nuclear size control and heterochromatin organization

(2013) Haiyi Wang et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

The Arabidopsis CAP-D proteins are required for correct chromatin organisation, growth and fertility

(2013) Veit Schubert et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Chromatin reprogramming during the somatic-to-reproductive cell fate transition in plants

(2013) Wenjing She et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Chromosome Engineering Allows the Efficient Isolation of Vertebrate Neocentromeres

(2013) Wei-Hao Shang et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Heterochromatin dynamics during developmental transitions in Arabidopsis — a focus on ribosomal DNA loci

(2013) Matthias Benoit et al.   GENE

Arabidopsis HIT4 encodes a novel chromocentre-localized protein involved in the heat reactivation of transcriptionally silent loci and is essential for heat tolerance in plants

(2013) Lian-Chin Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Non-CG methylation patterns shape the epigenetic landscape in Arabidopsis

(2013) Hume Stroud et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Arabidopsis KINETOCHORE NULL2 Is an Upstream Component for Centromeric Histone H3 Variant cenH3 Deposition at Centromeres

(2013) I. Lermontova et al.   PLANT CELL

Differential association of Arabidopsis telomeres and centromeres with Histone H3 variants

(2013) María I. Vaquero-Sedas et al.   Scientific Reports

RNA as a Structural and Regulatory Component of the Centromere

(2012) Jonathan I. Gent et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Genome-wide analysis of histone H3.1 and H3.3 variants in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2012) H. Stroud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Distinct modes of DNA accessibility in plant chromatin

(2012) Huan Shu et al.   Nature Communications

Dynamic Deposition of Histone Variant H3.3 Accompanies Developmental Remodeling of the Arabidopsis Transcriptome

(2012) Heike Wollmann et al.   PLoS Genetics

Integrative epigenomic mapping defines four main chromatin states in Arabidopsis

(2011) François Roudier et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Strong epigenetic similarity between maize centromeric and pericentromeric regions at the level of small RNAs, DNA methylation and H3 chromatin modifications

(2011) Jonathan I. Gent et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Knockdown of CENH3 in Arabidopsis reduces mitotic divisions and causes sterility by disturbed meiotic chromosome segregation

(2011) Inna Lermontova et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Seed maturation in Arabidopsis thaliana is characterized by nuclear size reduction and increased chromatin condensation

(2011) M. van Zanten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reference-guided assembly of four diverse Arabidopsis thaliana genomes

(2011) K. Schneeberger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Meiosis-Specific Loading of the Centromere-Specific Histone CENH3 in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2011) Maruthachalam Ravi et al.   PLoS Genetics

Heterochromatin maintenance and establishment: Lessons from the mouse pericentromere

(2011) Geneviève Almouzni et al.   Nucleus

Engineered Minichromosomes in Plants

(2010) James A. Birchler et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

A Strand-Specific Burst in Transcription of Pericentric Satellites Is Required for Chromocenter Formation and Early Mouse Development

(2010) Aline.V. Probst et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

The epigenetic control of the Athila family of retrotransposons in Arabidopsis

(2010) R. Keith Slotkin   Epigenetics

The Rapidly Evolving Centromere-Specific Histone Has Stringent Functional Requirements in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2010) M. Ravi et al.   GENETICS

Regulation of heterochromatic DNA replication by histone H3 lysine 27 methyltransferases

(2010) Yannick Jacob et al.   NATURE

Relationship between nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation

(2010) Ramakrishna K. Chodavarapu et al.   NATURE

Epigenetic Regulation of Repetitive Elements Is Attenuated by Prolonged Heat Stress inArabidopsis

(2010) Ales Pecinka et al.   PLANT CELL

Statistical Analysis of 3D Images Detects Regular Spatial Distributions of Centromeres and Chromocenters in Animal and Plant Nuclei

(2010) Philippe Andrey et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

HJURP Is a Cell-Cycle-Dependent Maintenance and Deposition Factor of CENP-A at Centromeres

(2009) Elaine M. Dunleavy et al.   CELL

Centromere-Specific Assembly of CENP-A Nucleosomes Is Mediated by HJURP

(2009) Daniel R. Foltz et al.   CELL

Epigenetic Reprogramming and Small RNA Silencing of Transposable Elements in Pollen

(2009) R. Keith Slotkin et al.   CELL

Cohesin gene defects may impair sister chromatid alignment and genome stability in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2009) Veit Schubert et al.   CHROMOSOMA

The two male gametes share equal ability to fertilize the egg cell in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2009) Mathieu Ingouff et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The HP1α–CAF1–SetDB1-containing complex provides H3K9me1 for Suv39-mediated K9me3 in pericentric heterochromatin

(2009) Alejandra Loyola et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Induction of RNA-directed DNA methylation upon decondensation of constitutive heterochromatin

(2009) Vera K Schoft et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Entropic organization of interphase chromosomes

(2009) Peter R. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

ATXR5 and ATXR6 are H3K27 monomethyltransferases required for chromatin structure and gene silencing

(2009) Yannick Jacob et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Non-specific interactions are sufficient to explain the position of heterochromatic chromocenters and nucleoli in interphase nuclei

(2009) S. de Nooijer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Nuclear envelope and nuclear pore complex structure and organization in tobacco BY-2 cells

(2009) Jindriska Fiserova et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Centromere repositioning in cucurbit species: Implication of the genomic impact from centromere activation and inactivation

(2009) Y. Han et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interplay of RNA Pol IV and ROS1 During Post-Embryonic 5S rDNA Chromatin Remodeling

(2008) Julien Douet et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Epigenetic Modification of Centromeric Chromatin: Hypomethylation of DNA Sequences in the CENH3-Associated Chromatin in Arabidopsis thaliana and Maize

(2008) W. Zhang et al.   PLANT CELL

Heterochromatin and RNAi Are Required to Establish CENP-A Chromatin at Centromeres

(2008) H. D. Folco et al.   SCIENCE