Distinct Patterns of Histone Methylation and Acetylation in Human...

Physiological Research;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......epigenetic histone modifications such as H3...Suv39H1. The histone modifications studied were...patterns of histone modifications within the...Key words Histone methylation * Acetylation...selected types of histone modifications. Zinner et...K9). These ...

Histone Modifications and Expression of Light-Regulated Genes in...

Plant Physiology;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......on four selected histone modifications (H3K4me3, H3K9ac...relationship of these histone modifications with the expression...observed that the histone modifications examined and gene...

Impact of Core Histone Modifications on Transcriptional Regulation and...

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......environmental impact on histone modifications will be discussed...histone acetylation, histone methylation, histone monoubiquitination...244 II. ROLE OF CORE HISTONE MODIFICATIONS IN TRANSCRIPTIONAL...245 A. Types of Histone Modifications...249 III. HISTONE ...

U. Virginia lab helps find new genetic code

University Wire;  September 5, 2001 ;     418 words ......regulation mechanism is a process called histone methylation. Histones are proteins that mediate...lysine exists. In the process of histone methylation, a chemical methyl group is added...be activated or inactivated. The histone methylation serves as a "master switch," multiplying...

New Horizons for Diagnostic Applications of Circulating Nucleosomes in...

Clinical Chemistry;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......modifications as DNA methylation, histone modifications, and the production of noncoding...cancers (8). Posttranslational histone modifications include the addition of small acetyl...variety and combinatorial nature of histone modifications have led to the development of...

Enzyme Demethylates Histones.(enzyme JHDM1)(Brief Article)

Genomics and Proteomics;  January 1, 2006 ;     214 words ......issue of Nature showed that covalent histone methylation can be reversed by an enzyme known...domain-containing histone demethylase 1. Histone methylation plays an important role in several...including gene activation or repression. Histone methylation was, until recently, believed ...

Inhibitory Effects on Histone Methylation and Block of Cytokinesis by...

The Journal of Nutrition;  December 1, 2004 ;     356 words ...Inhibitory Effects on Histone Methylation and Block of Cytokinesis...histones. In this study, histone methylation was monitored by the transfer...that include inhibition of histone methylation and cell proliferation...

Partitioning of the Maize Epigenome by the Number of Methyl Groups on...

Genetics;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......compare the distribution of individual histone methylation events to each other and to DNA...discuss the evolutionary lability of histone methylation profiles and draw a distinction...relationship between heterochromatin and histone methylation in any species since quantitative...

Maize Histone Deacetylase hda101 Is Involved in Plant Development, Gene...

Plant Cell;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......hda101 expression also affected histone modifications other than acetylation, including...that site-specific combinations of histone modifications, together with DNA methylation...et al., 2005). Among different histone modifications, acetylation of N-terminal Lys...

The histone code

The Scientist;  January 27, 2003 ;     448 words ......idea new? Reigning theory in the past suggested that histone modifications created charge and folding differences to make nucleosomes...Scientist during the past five years have dealt with histone modifications, including the ones in this issue (see p. 27). Who are...

Is It a Code: The Debate

The Scientist;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......introducing a mutant tRNA. Asking whether histone modifications and their functional effects constitute...defined term encompassing all the histone modifications linked to chromatin function, this...bturner@the-scientist.com No: Histone modifications, although diverse, do not ...

Ordered Histone Modifications Are Associated with Transcriptional Poising...

Plant Cell;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......analysis of chronological changes in histone modifications, notably increased acetylation...the phas chromatin. The observed histone modifications provide insight into factors involved...transcription. Evaluation of the covalent histone modifications associated with the ...

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL SCIENTIST RECEIVES NEW NIH...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 16, 2008 ;     416 words ......However, we only have limited information about how histone modifications interact with one another to elicit their biological...packaging, with the long-term goal of understanding how histone modifications contribute to the possible 'histone code' and human biology...

Role of histone methylation in zygotic genome activation in the...

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......expression was influenced by histone modifications. However, little infonnation...about the relation of histone methylation with embryonic gene expression...results suggest that histone methylation may be closely correlated...Peterson 2001), while histone methylation ...

Transcription and Histone Modifications in the Recombination-Free Region...

Plant Cell;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......H4 modifications. Rather, the varied distribution of histone modifications might reflect the composition and abundance of sequence...distinct form of chromatin that is enriched in particular histone modifications, such as dimethylated H3 lysine-9 (H3K9me2), and particular...