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ArticleeLife2014

The budding yeast Centromere DNA Element II wraps a stable Cse4 hemisome in either orientation in vivo.

Steven Henikoff, Srinivas Ramachandran, Kristina Krassovsky, Terri D Bryson, Christine A Codomo, Kristin Brogaard, Jonathan Widom, Ji-Ping Wang, Jorja G Henikoff

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Article in eLife, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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58citing papers in PubMed
19.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Steven HenikoffBasic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States.
Srinivas Ramachandran
Kristina Krassovsky
Terri D Bryson
Christine A Codomo
Kristin Brogaard
Jonathan Widom
Ji-Ping Wang
Jorja G Henikoff
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USNorthwestern University · USFred Hutch Cancer Center · USSeattle University · US

Funding

TRANS-NETWORK PROJECTSU54CA143869 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WIDOM, JONATHAN · 2009 to 2013
$12.8M
Trans-NetworkU54CA143862 · NCI · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI MELDRUM, DEIRDRE R. · 2009 to 2013
$8.4M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143862NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143869
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In budding yeast, a single cenH3 (Cse4) nucleosome occupies the ∼120-bp functional centromere, however conflicting structural models for the particle have been proposed. To resolve this controversy, we have applied H4S47C-anchored cleavage mapping, which reveals the precise position of histone H4 in every nucleosome in the genome. We find that cleavage patterns at centromeres are unique within the genome and are incompatible with symmetrical structures, including octameric nucleosomes and (Cse4/H4)2 tetrasomes. Centromere cleavage patterns are compatible with a precisely positioned core structure, one in which each of the 16 yeast centromeres is occupied by oppositely oriented Cse4/H4/H2A/H2B hemisomes in two rotational phases within the population. Centromere-specific hemisomes are also inferred from distances observed between closely-spaced H4 cleavages, as predicted from structural modeling. Our results indicate that the orientation and rotational position of the stable hemisome at each yeast centromere is not specified by the functional centromere sequence. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01861.001.

Indexed as

Chromatin Assembly and DisassemblyBinding SitesCentromereChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, FungalHistonesMolecular Dynamics SimulationNucleic Acid ConformationNucleosomesProtein BindingProtein ConformationSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsStructure-Activity RelationshipChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneCSE4 protein, S cerevisiaeDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, FungalHistonesNucleosomesSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteinscentromereschemical cleavage mappingnucleosome

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PMID24737863
PMCPMC3983907
OpenAlexW2158430792

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