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ReviewThe EMBO journal2016

Touch, act and go: landing and operating on nucleosomes.

Valentina Speranzini, Simona Pilotto, Titia K Sixma, Andrea Mattevi

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Review in The EMBO journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Structure and nucleic acid interactions of the SProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  9. Site-Specific Studies of Nucleosome Interactions by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2018
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  11. Chromatin remodeling effects on enhancer activity.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Valentina SperanziniDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Simona PilottoDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Titia K SixmaDivision of Biochemistry and Cancer Genomics Center, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Andrea MatteviDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy andrea.mattevi@unipv.it.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromatin-associated enzymes are responsible for the installation, removal and reading of precise post-translation modifications on DNA and histone proteins. They are specifically recruited to the target gene by associated factors, and as a result of their activity, they contribute in modulating cell identity and differentiation. Structural and biophysical approaches are broadening our knowledge on these processes, demonstrating that DNA, histone tails and histone surfaces can each function as distinct yet functionally interconnected anchoring points promoting nucleosome binding and modification. The mechanisms underlying nucleosome recognition have been described for many histone modifiers and related readers. Here, we review the recent literature on the structural organization of these nucleosome-associated proteins, the binding properties that drive nucleosome modification and the methodological advances in their analysis. The overarching conclusion is that besides acting on the same substrate (the nucleosome), each system functions through characteristic modes of action, which bring about specific biological functions in gene expression regulation.

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Gene Expression RegulationAnimalsDNA-Binding ProteinsHumansModels, MolecularMolecular BiologyNuclear ProteinsNucleosomesDNA-Binding ProteinsNuclear ProteinsNucleosomeschromatinepigeneticsmolecular recognitionnucleosomestructural biology

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PMID26787641
PMCPMC4755112

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