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ReviewMolecular biology reports2014

Proteolytic clipping of histone tails: the emerging role of histone proteases in regulation of various biological processes.

Gajendra Kumar Azad, Raghuvir S Tomar

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Review in Molecular biology reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Leveraging Zymography to Discover and Investigate Nuclear Proteases.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  2. Histone Tail Cleavage as a Mechanism for Epigenetic Regulation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  20. Histone proteolysis: a proposal for categorization into 'clipping' and 'degradation'.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gajendra Kumar AzadLaboratory of Chromatin Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, 462023, India.
Raghuvir S Tomar
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore · INIndian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromatin is a dynamic DNA scaffold structure that responds to a variety of external and internal stimuli to regulate the fundamental biological processes. Majority of the cases chromatin dynamicity is exhibited through chemical modifications and physical changes between DNA and histones. These modifications are reversible and complex signaling pathways involving chromatin-modifying enzymes regulate the fluidity of chromatin. Fluidity of chromatin can also be impacted through irreversible change, proteolytic processing of histones which is a poorly understood phenomenon. In recent studies, histone proteolysis has been implicated as a regulatory process involved in the permanent removal of epigenetic marks from histones. Activities responsible for clipping of histone tails and their significance in various biological processes have been observed in several organisms. Here, we have reviewed the properties of some of the known histone proteases, analyzed their significance in biological processes and have provided future directions.

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AnimalsEndopeptidasesEnzyme ActivationHistonesHumansProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalProteolysisEndopeptidaseshistone proteasesHistones

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PMID24469733
OpenAlexW1998321049

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