MacroH2A in stem cells: a story beyond gene repression

Epigenetic stability of repressed states involving the histone variant macroH2A revealed by nuclear transfer to Xenopus oocytes

(2012) Vincent Pasque et al.   Nucleus

Regulation of chromatin by histone modifications

(2011) Andrew J Bannister et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Histone variant macroH2A confers resistance to nuclear reprogramming

(2011) Vincent Pasque et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

DNA methylation: TET proteins—guardians of CpG islands?

(2011) Kristine Williams et al.   EMBO REPORTS

The Linker Region of MacroH2A Promotes Self-association of Nucleosomal Arrays

(2011) Uma M. Muthurajan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Embryonic signaling in melanoma: potential for diagnosis and therapy

(2011) Luigi Strizzi et al.   LABORATORY INVESTIGATION

QKI-Mediated Alternative Splicing of the Histone Variant MacroH2A1 Regulates Cancer Cell Proliferation

(2011) L. Novikov et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Discovering pluripotency: 30 years of mouse embryonic stem cells

(2011) Martin Evans   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

X Chromosome Inactivation and Differentiation Occur Readily in ES Cells Doubly-Deficient for MacroH2A1 and MacroH2A2

(2011) Borko Tanasijevic et al.   PLoS One

Epigenetic factors influencing resistance to nuclear reprogramming

(2011) Vincent Pasque et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Rapid Elimination of the Histone Variant MacroH2A from Somatic Cell Heterochromatin after Nuclear Transfer

(2010) Ching-Chien Chang et al.   Cellular Reprogramming

Changes in the nuclear deposition of histone H2A variants during pre-implantation development in mice

(2010) B. Nashun et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Histone Variants in Metazoan Development

(2010) Laura A. Banaszynski et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Approaching the molecular and physiological function of macroH2A variants

(2010) Marcus Buschbeck et al.   Epigenetics

Genome-Wide Distribution of MacroH2A1 Histone Variants in Mouse Liver Chromatin

(2010) L. N. Changolkar et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

The histone variant macroH2A suppresses melanoma progression through regulation of CDK8

(2010) Avnish Kapoor et al.   NATURE

Histone variant macroH2A1 deletion in mice causes female-specific steatosis

(2010) Mathieu Boulard et al.   Epigenetics & Chromatin

New developments in post-translational modifications and functions of histone H2A variantsThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue, entitled CSBMCB’s 51st Annual Meeting – Epigenetics and Chromatin Dynamics, and has undergone the Journal’s usual peer review process.

(2009) Anita A. Thambirajah et al.   Biochemistry and Cell Biology

The histone variant macroH2A1 marks repressed autosomal chromatin, but protects a subset of its target genes from silencing

(2009) M. J. Gamble et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

A macrodomain-containing histone rearranges chromatin upon sensing PARP1 activation

(2009) Gyula Timinszky et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The histone variant macroH2A is an epigenetic regulator of key developmental genes

(2009) Marcus Buschbeck et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Histone macroH2A isoforms predict the risk of lung cancer recurrence

(2009) J C Sporn et al.   ONCOGENE

Integration of External Signaling Pathways with the Core Transcriptional Network in Embryonic Stem Cells

(2008) Xi Chen et al.   CELL

Capturing Pluripotency

(2008) Jose Silva et al.   CELL

An Extended Transcriptional Network for Pluripotency of Embryonic Stem Cells

(2008) Jonghwan Kim et al.   CELL

Weak but Uniform Enrichment of the Histone Variant macroH2A1 along the Inactive X Chromosome

(2008) F. Mietton et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

De novo DNA methylation promoted by G9a prevents reprogramming of embryonically silenced genes

(2008) Silvina Epsztejn-Litman et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A phosphorylated subpopulation of the histone variant macroH2A1 is excluded from the inactive X chromosome and enriched during mitosis

(2008) E. Bernstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA