Frederic Berger: Histone Variants regulate genome activity & organization

Invited seminar at the Institute for
Molecular Cell and Systems Biology 

#MCSBSem
06.06.2016  
Dr. Frederic Berger
Gregor Mendel Institute Vienna





Papers mentioned in the talk:

Cann KL, Dellaire G. Heterochromatin and the DNA damage response: the need to relax. Biochem Cell Biol. 2011 Feb;89(1):45-60. doi: 10.1139/O10-113.

Kawashima T, Lorkovic ZJ, Nishihama R, et al. (2015) Diversification of histone H2A variants during plant evolution. Trends Plant Sci 20(7):419-25.

 Loppin B, Bonnefoy E, Anselme C, Laurençon A, Karr TL, Couble P. The histone H3.3 chaperone HIRA is essential for chromatin assembly in the male pronucleus. Nature. 2005 Oct 27;437(7063):1386-90.

Talbert et al.; A unified phylogeny-based nomenclature for histone variants. Epigenetics & Chromatin20125:7 DOI: 10.1186/1756-8935-5-7 

Wollmann H, Holec S, Alden K, Clarke ND, Jacques P-E, Berger F (2012). Dynamic Deposition of Histone Variant H3.3 Accompanies Developmental Remodeling of the Arabidopsis Transcriptome. Plos Genetics, 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002658.

Yelagandula R, Stroud H, Holec S, Zhou K, Feng S, Zhong X, Muthurajan U, Nie X, Kawashima T, Groth M, Luger K, Jacobsen S, Berger F (2014) The histone variant H2A.W defines heterochromatin and promotes chromatin condensation in Arabidopsis. Cell 158(1):98-109.