The epigenetic regulation of centromeres and telomeres in plants and animals

Activities of Chromatin Remodeling Factors and Histone Chaperones and Their Effects in Root Apical Meristem Development

(2020) Huijia Kang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Telomeres in Plants and Humans: Not So Different, Not So Similar

(2019) Petra Procházková Schrumpfová et al.   Cells

The Emerging Roles of TERRA in Telomere Maintenance and Genome Stability

(2019) Nicole Bettin et al.   Cells

The macroH2A1.2 histone variant links ATRX loss to alternative telomere lengthening

(2019) Jeongkyu Kim et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Recent emergence and extinction of the protection of telomeres 1c gene in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2019) Callie R. Kobayashi et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Heterochromatin drives compartmentalization of inverted and conventional nuclei

(2019) Martin Falk et al.   NATURE

The deposition of CENH3 in maize is stringently regulated

(2019) Chao Feng et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Two combinatorial patterns of telomere histone marks in plants with canonical and non‐canonical telomere repeats

(2019) Kateřina Adamusová et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Mouse chromocenters DNA content: sequencing and in silico analysis

(2018) Dmitrii I. Ostromyshenskii et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Posttranslational modifications of CENP-A: marks of distinction

(2018) Shashank Srivastava et al.   CHROMOSOMA

HP1 links centromeric heterochromatin to centromere cohesion in mammals

(2018) Qi Yi et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Centromere transcription allows CENP-A to transit from chromatin association to stable incorporation

(2018) Georg O.M. Bobkov et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Dynamics and function of DNA methylation in plants

(2018) Huiming Zhang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Epigenetic features of human telomeres

(2018) María D Cubiles et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

DDM1 guards against telomere truncation in Arabidopsis

(2018) Xiaoyuan Xie et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

TERRA recruitment of polycomb to telomeres is essential for histone trymethylation marks at telomeric heterochromatin

(2018) Juan J. Montero et al.   Nature Communications

Plant centromeres: genetics, epigenetics and evolution

(2018) Ludmila Cristina Oliveira et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS

Versatility of multivalent orientation, inverted meiosis, and rescued fitness in holocentric chromosomal hybrids

(2018) Vladimir A. Lukhtanov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Repetitive Fragile Sites: Centromere Satellite DNA As a Source of Genome Instability in Human Diseases

(2018) Elizabeth M. Black et al.   Genes

Epigenetics of Modified DNA Bases: 5-Methylcytosine and Beyond

(2018) Suresh Kumar et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Centromere and Pericentromere Transcription: Roles and Regulation … in Sickness and in Health

(2018) Ksenia Smurova et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Centromere Destiny in Dicentric Chromosomes: New Insights from the Evolution of Human Chromosome 2 Ancestral Centromeric Region

(2017) Giorgia Chiatante et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Centromeres Drive a Hard Bargain

(2017) Leah F. Rosin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Centromere evolution and CpG methylation during vertebrate speciation

(2017) Kazuki Ichikawa et al.   Nature Communications

New Insights into 5hmC DNA Modification: Generation, Distribution and Function

(2017) Dong-Qiao Shi et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Centromeric and non-centromeric satellite DNA organisation differs in holocentric Rhynchospora species

(2016) Tiago Ribeiro et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Structure of centromere chromatin: from nucleosome to chromosomal architecture

(2016) Thomas Schalch et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Centromeres

(2016) Lisa E. Kursel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

How to rule the nucleus: divide et impera

(2016) Irina Solovei et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Novel features of telomere biology revealed by the absence of telomeric DNA methylation

(2016) Alejandro Vega-Vaquero et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The Flexible Ends of CENP-A Nucleosome Are Required for Mitotic Fidelity

(2016) Yohan Roulland et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Alliumtelomeres unmasked: the unusual telomeric sequence (CTCGGTTATGGG)nis synthesized by telomerase

(2016) Petr Fajkus et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Large-scale heterochromatin remodeling linked to overreplication-associated DNA damage

(2016) Wei Feng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Acetylation of histone H4 lysine 5 and 12 is required for CENP-A deposition into centromeres

(2016) Wei-Hao Shang et al.   Nature Communications

High evolutionary turnover of satellite families in Caenorhabditis

(2015) Juan A. Subirana et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Repetitive sequence analysis and karyotyping reveals centromere-associated DNA sequences in radish (Raphanus sativus L.)

(2015) Qunyan He et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

First evidence for (TTAGG)n telomeric sequence and sex chromosome post-reduction in Coleorrhyncha (Insecta, Hemiptera)

(2015) Valentina G. Kuznetsova et al.   Comparative Cytogenetics

Diversity in the organization of centromeric chromatin

(2015) Florian A Steiner et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

DNA Sequence-Specific Binding of CENP-B Enhances the Fidelity of Human Centromere Function

(2015) Daniele Fachinetti et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Centromere and telomere sequence alterations reflect the rapid genome evolution within the carnivorous plant genusGenlisea

(2015) Trung D. Tran et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Breaking bad: R-loops and genome integrity

(2015) Julie Sollier et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Histone Variants and Epigenetics

(2015) Steven Henikoff et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Constitutive heterochromatin formation and transcription in mammals

(2015) Nehmé Saksouk et al.   Epigenetics & Chromatin

Dynamic epigenetic states of maize centromeres

(2015) Yalin Liu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Structure and Function of Centromeric and Pericentromeric Heterochromatin in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2015) Lauriane Simon et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Telomeric repeat-containing RNA TERRA: a noncoding RNA connecting telomere biology to genome integrity

(2015) Emilio Cusanelli et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

A unique chromatin complex occupies young  -satellite arrays of human centromeres

(2015) J. G. Henikoff et al.   Science Advances

Understanding the relationship between DNA methylation and histone lysine methylation

(2014) Nathan R. Rose et al.   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

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

(2014) Ramesh Yelagandula et al.   CELL

Centromere identity from the DNA point of view

(2014) Miroslav Plohl et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Centromeres and kinetochores of Brassicaceae

(2014) Inna Lermontova et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Epigenetic Regulation of Telomere Maintenance

(2014) Miloslava Fojtová et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Histone H4 Lys 20 Monomethylation of the CENP-A Nucleosome Is Essential for Kinetochore Assembly

(2014) Tetsuya Hori et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

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

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

Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 and H3K27me3 Cooperate with H3K9 Methylation To Maintain Heterochromatin Protein 1  at Chromatin

(2014) J. Boros et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Redundant Mechanisms to Form Silent Chromatin at Pericentromeric Regions Rely on BEND3 and DNA Methylation

(2014) Nehmé Saksouk et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Centromeric histone H2B monoubiquitination promotes noncoding transcription and chromatin integrity

(2014) Laia Sadeghi et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Boom-Bust Turnovers of Megabase-Sized Centromeric DNA in Solanum Species: Rapid Evolution of DNA Sequences Associated with Centromeres

(2014) H. Zhang et al.   PLANT CELL

Genetic Organization of Interphase Chromosome Bands and Interbands in Drosophila melanogaster

(2014) Igor F. Zhimulev et al.   PLoS One

Posttranslational modifications of human histone H3: An update

(2014) Yan-Ming Xu et al.   PROTEOMICS

Alternative meiotic chromatid segregation in the holocentric plant Luzula elegans

(2014) Stefan Heckmann et al.   Nature Communications

Functional characterization of the TERRA transcriptome at damaged telomeres

(2014) Antonio Porro et al.   Nature Communications

Genomic Characterization of Large Heterochromatic Gaps in the Human Genome Assembly

(2014) Nicolas Altemose et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Telomeric noncoding RNA: telomeric repeat-containing RNA in telomere biology

(2014) Emilio Cusanelli et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-RNA

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

(2014) Delphine Quénet et al.   eLife

Chromatin features of plant telomeric sequences at terminal vs. internal positions

(2014) Eva Majerová et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The Past, Present, and Future of Human Centromere Genomics

(2014) Megan Aldrup-MacDonald et al.   Genes

Comprehensive Analysis of Silencing Mutants Reveals Complex Regulation of the Arabidopsis Methylome

(2013) Hume Stroud et al.   CELL

Short Telomeres in ESCs Lead to Unstable Differentiation

(2013) Fabio Pucci et al.   Cell Stem Cell

A novel translocation event leads to a recombinant stable chromosome with interrupted centromeric domains in rice

(2013) Guixiang Wang et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Chromosome Engineering Allows the Efficient Isolation of Vertebrate Neocentromeres

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

The chromatin remodelling complex NoRC safeguards genome stability by heterochromatin formation at telomeres and centromeres

(2013) Anna Postepska-Igielska et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Telomere recombination and alternative telomere lengthening mechanisms

(2013) Arturo Vallejo   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Telomeric Noncoding RNA TERRA Is Induced by Telomere Shortening to Nucleate Telomerase Molecules at Short Telomeres

(2013) Emilio Cusanelli et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Genome-Wide Analysis of DNA Methylation in Soybean

(2013) Qing-Xin Song et al.   Molecular Plant

Compromised telomere maintenance in hypomethylated Arabidopsis thaliana plants

(2013) A. Ogrocka et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

De novo centromere formation on a chromosome fragment in maize

(2013) S. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Conserved Mechanism for Centromeric Nucleosome Recognition by Centromere Protein CENP-C

(2013) H. Kato et al.   SCIENCE

Epigenetics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2013) M. Grunstein et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Systematic Identification of Proteins Binding to Chromatin-Embedded Ubiquitylated H2B Reveals Recruitment of SWI/SNF to Regulate Transcription

(2013) Efrat Shema-Yaacoby et al.   Cell Reports

Comparative analysis of tandem repeats from hundreds of species reveals unique insights into centromere evolution

(2013) Daniël P Melters et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Chromatin Structure in Telomere Dynamics

(2013) Alessandra Galati et al.   Frontiers in Oncology

RNA as a Structural and Regulatory Component of the Centromere

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

Cohesin’s DNA Exit Gate Is Distinct from Its Entrance Gate and Is Regulated by Acetylation

(2012) Kok-Lung Chan et al.   CELL

Centromere positions in chicken and Japanese quail chromosomes: de novo centromere formation versus pericentric inversions

(2012) Anna Zlotina et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Holocentric chromosomes: convergent evolution, meiotic adaptations, and genomic analysis

(2012) Daniël P. Melters et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Unlocking Holocentric Chromosomes: New Perspectives from Comparative and Functional Genomics?

(2012) Mauro Mandrioli et al.   CURRENT GENOMICS

Using the Telobox to Search for Plant Telomere Binding Proteins

(2012) Vratislav Peska et al.   CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE

A role for CTCF and cohesin in subtelomere chromatin organization, TERRA transcription, and telomere end protection

(2012) Zhong Deng et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Assembling pieces of the centromere epigenetics puzzle

(2012) Rodrigo González-Barrios et al.   Epigenetics

Chromosome end protection by blunt-ended telomeres

(2012) A. Kazda et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Epigenetic engineering: histone H3K9 acetylation is compatible with kinetochore structure and function

(2012) J. H. Bergmann et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Roles of Mis18α in Epigenetic Regulation of Centromeric Chromatin and CENP-A Loading

(2012) Ik Soo Kim et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Telomere length regulates TERRA levels through increased trimethylation of telomeric H3K9 and HP1α

(2012) Nausica Arnoult et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Analysis of the epigenetic status of telomeres by using ChIP-seq data

(2012) María I. Vaquero-Sedas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Transcription in the maintenance of centromere chromatin identity

(2012) F. L. Chan et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Repeatless and Repeat-Based Centromeres in Potato: Implications for Centromere Evolution

(2012) Z. Gong et al.   PLANT CELL

The holocentric speciesLuzula elegansshows interplay between centromere and large-scale genome organization

(2012) Stefan Heckmann et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Telomerase Efficiently Elongates Highly Transcribing Telomeres in Human Cancer Cells

(2012) Benjamin O. Farnung et al.   PLoS One

Identification of novel transcripts in annotated genomes using RNA-Seq

(2011) A. Roberts et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Telomeres: The silence is broken

(2011) Claus M. Azzalin et al.   CELL CYCLE

The human TTAGGG repeat factors 1 and 2 bind to a subset of interstitial telomeric sequences and satellite repeats

(2011) Thomas Simonet et al.   CELL RESEARCH

A Positive Feedback Loop Involving Haspin and Aurora B Promotes CPC Accumulation at Centromeres in Mitosis

(2011) Fangwei Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Endogenous Transcription at the Centromere Facilitates Centromere Activity in Budding Yeast

(2011) Kentaro Ohkuni et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Integrative epigenomic mapping defines four main chromatin states in Arabidopsis

(2011) François Roudier et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Subtelomeric repetitive elements determine TERRA regulation by Rap1/Rif and Rap1/Sir complexes in yeast

(2011) Nahid Iglesias et al.   EMBO REPORTS

On the chromatin structure of eukaryotic telomeres

(2011) María I. Vaquero-Sedas et al.   Epigenetics

Distinct DNA methylation patterns associated with active and inactive centromeres of the maize B chromosome

(2011) D.-H. Koo et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Satellite RNA-Derived Small Interfering RNA satsiR-12 Targeting the 3' Untranslated Region of Cucumber Mosaic Virus Triggers Viral RNAs for Degradation

(2011) H. Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Mitotic centromeric targeting of HP1 and its binding to Sgo1 are dispensable for sister-chromatid cohesion in human cells

(2011) Jungseog Kang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Crystal structure of the human centromeric nucleosome containing CENP-A

(2011) Hiroaki Tachiwana et al.   NATURE

Centromeres: unique chromatin structures that drive chromosome segregation

(2011) Jolien S. Verdaasdonk et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Euchromatic Subdomains in Rice Centromeres Are Associated with Genes and Transcription

(2011) Yufeng Wu et al.   PLANT CELL

Hypomethylating drugs efficiently decrease cytosine methylation in telomeric DNA and activate telomerase without affecting telomere lengths in tobacco cells

(2011) Eva Majerová et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

HP1 Recruits Activity-Dependent Neuroprotective Protein to H3K9me3 Marked Pericentromeric Heterochromatin for Silencing of Major Satellite Repeats

(2011) Kerstin Mosch et al.   PLoS One

Altered Telomeres in Tumors with ATRX and DAXX Mutations

(2011) C. M. Heaphy et al.   SCIENCE

Organization and Evolution of Subtelomeric Satellite Repeats in the Potato Genome

(2011) Giovana A. Torres et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

ATR-X Syndrome Protein Targets Tandem Repeats and Influences Allele-Specific Expression in a Size-Dependent Manner

(2010) Martin J. Law et al.   CELL

Systematic Protein Location Mapping Reveals Five Principal Chromatin Types in Drosophila Cells

(2010) Guillaume J. Filion et al.   CELL

Centromere inactivation and epigenetic modifications of a plant chromosome with three functional centromeres

(2010) Wenli Zhang et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Functional centromeres in soybean include two distinct tandem repeats and a retrotransposon

(2010) Ahmet L. Tek et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Epigenetic engineering shows H3K4me2 is required for HJURP targeting and CENP-A assembly on a synthetic human kinetochore

(2010) Jan H Bergmann et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Epigenetic mechanisms and the relationship to childhood asthma

(2010) M. Kabesch et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

The death-associated protein DAXX is a novel histone chaperone involved in the replication-independent deposition of H3.3

(2010) P. Drane et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

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

(2010) M. Ravi et al.   GENETICS

Molecular Dissection of Telomeric Repeat-Containing RNA Biogenesis Unveils the Presence of Distinct and Multiple Regulatory Pathways

(2010) A. Porro et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Regulation of heterochromatic DNA replication by histone H3 lysine 27 methyltransferases

(2010) Yannick Jacob et al.   NATURE

Heterochromatin formation in the mouse embryo requires critical residues of the histone variant H3.3

(2010) Angèle Santenard et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Reduced histone biosynthesis and chromatin changes arising from a damage signal at telomeres

(2010) Roderick J O'Sullivan et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Arabidopsis thaliana telomeres exhibit euchromatic features

(2010) María I. Vaquero-Sedas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genome-wide mapping of cytosine methylation revealed dynamic DNA methylation patterns associated with genes and centromeres in rice

(2010) Huihuang Yan et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

HJURP binds CENP-A via a highly conserved N-terminal domain and mediates its deposition at centromeres

(2010) M. Shuaib et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

(2010) S. Feng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transcriptional regulation through noncoding RNAs and epigenetic modifications

(2010) Riki Kurokawa et al.   RNA Biology

Two Histone Marks Establish the Inner Centromere and Chromosome Bi-Orientation

(2010) Yuya Yamagishi et al.   SCIENCE

Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Eukaryotic DNA Methylation

(2010) A. Zemach et al.   SCIENCE

TERRA transcripts are bound by a complex array of RNA-binding proteins

(2010) Isabel López de Silanes et al.   Nature Communications

siRNA–Mediated Methylation of Arabidopsis Telomeres

(2010) Jan Vrbsky et al.   PLoS Genetics

Uncoupling of Satellite DNA and Centromeric Function in the Genus Equus

(2010) Francesca M. Piras et al.   PLoS Genetics

DNA Binding of Centromere Protein C (CENPC) Is Stabilized by Single-Stranded RNA

(2010) Yaqing Du et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Biology of Chromatin Remodeling Complexes

(2009) Cedric R. Clapier et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Maize Centromeres: Structure, Function, Epigenetics

(2009) James A. Birchler et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Cohesin: Its Roles and Mechanisms

(2009) Kim Nasmyth et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Multiple Roles for Heterochromatin Protein 1 Genes in Drosophila

(2009) Danielle Vermaak et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Determination of enriched histone modifications in non-genic portions of the human genome

(2009) Jeffrey A Rosenfeld et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Telomeres and telomerase in cancer

(2009) S. E. Artandi et al.   CARCINOGENESIS

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

(2009) Daniel R. Foltz et al.   CELL

Major Evolutionary Transitions in Centromere Complexity

(2009) Harmit S. Malik et al.   CELL

The telomeric transcriptome and SMG proteins at the crossroads

(2009) R. Chawla et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Identification of a Maize Neocentromere in an Oat-Maize Addition Line

(2009) C.N. Topp et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Histone Chaperone Spt16 Promotes Redeposition of the Original H3-H4 Histones Evicted by Elongating RNA Polymerase

(2009) Adil Jamai et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

TERRA RNA Binding to TRF2 Facilitates Heterochromatin Formation and ORC Recruitment at Telomeres

(2009) Zhong Deng et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Kinetochore geometry defined by cohesion within the centromere

(2009) Takeshi Sakuno et al.   NATURE

Centromere assembly requires the direct recognition of CENP-A nucleosomes by CENP-N

(2009) Christopher W. Carroll et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Telomerase activity is associated with an increase in DNA methylation at the proximal subtelomere and a reduction in telomeric transcription

(2009) Laura J. Ng et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Non-coding murine centromeric transcripts associate with and potentiate Aurora B kinase

(2009) Federica Ferri et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

CpG-island promoters drive transcription of human telomeres

(2009) S. G. Nergadze et al.   RNA

Dicer independent small RNAs associate with telomeric heterochromatin

(2009) F. Cao et al.   RNA

Phosphorylation of H2A by Bub1 Prevents Chromosomal Instability Through Localizing Shugoshin

(2009) S. A. Kawashima et al.   SCIENCE

Synthetic Heterochromatin Bypasses RNAi and Centromeric Repeats to Establish Functional Centromeres

(2009) A. Kagansky et al.   SCIENCE

Epigenetics: Definition, Mechanisms and Clinical Perspective

(2009) Cathérine Dupont et al.   SEMINARS IN REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE

H2A.Z and DNA methylation: irreconcilable differences

(2009) Michael S. Kobor et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

LINE Retrotransposon RNA Is an Essential Structural and Functional Epigenetic Component of a Core Neocentromeric Chromatin

(2009) Anderly C. Chueh et al.   PLoS Genetics

Neocentromeres: New Insights into Centromere Structure, Disease Development, and Karyotype Evolution

(2008) Owen J. Marshall et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A new class of retroviral and satellite encoded small RNAs emanates from mammalian centromeres

(2008) Dawn M. Carone et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Inactivation of a Human Kinetochore by Specific Targeting of Chromatin Modifiers

(2008) Megumi Nakano et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Mapping of interaction domains of putative telomere-binding proteins AtTRB1 and AtPOT1b fromArabidopsis thaliana

(2008) Petra Procházková Schrumpfová et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Hypomethylation of subtelomeric regions in ICF syndrome is associated with abnormally short telomeres and enhanced transcription from telomeric regions

(2008) Shiran Yehezkel et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Epigenetics regulate centromere formation and kinetochore function

(2008) Randall S. Gieni et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

Noncoding RNA in development

(2008) Paulo P. Amaral et al.   MAMMALIAN GENOME

The Rat1p 5′ to 3′ Exonuclease Degrades Telomeric Repeat-Containing RNA and Promotes Telomere Elongation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2008) Brian Luke et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Histone H2A.Z and DNA methylation are mutually antagonistic chromatin marks

(2008) Daniel Zilberman et al.   NATURE

SIRT6 is a histone H3 lysine 9 deacetylase that modulates telomeric chromatin

(2008) Eriko Michishita et al.   NATURE

Shotgun bisulphite sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome reveals DNA methylation patterning

(2008) Shawn J. Cokus et al.   NATURE

Combinatorial patterns of histone acetylations and methylations in the human genome

(2008) Zhibin Wang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Epigenetic regulation of centromeric chromatin: old dogs, new tricks?

(2008) Robin C. Allshire et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Functional characterization of domains in AtTRB1, a putative telomere-binding protein in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2008) Iva Mozgová et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

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

Heterochromatin Integrity Affects Chromosome Reorganization After Centromere Dysfunction

(2008) K. Ishii et al.   SCIENCE

The Histone H3K79 Methyltransferase Dot1L Is Essential for Mammalian Development and Heterochromatin Structure

(2008) Brendan Jones et al.   PLoS Genetics

Satellite DNAs between selfishness and functionality: Structure, genomics and evolution of tandem repeats in centromeric (hetero)chromatin

(2007) Miroslav Plohl et al.   GENE

Endings in the middle: Current knowledge of interstitial telomeric sequences

(2007) Kah Wai Lin et al.   MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH