Beyond the marks : reader-effectors as drivers of epigenetics and chromatin engineering

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Chromatin is a system of proteins and DNA that regulates chromosome organization and gene expression in eukaryotes. Essential features that support these processes include biochemical marks on histones and DNA, 'writer' enzymes that generate or remove these marks and proteins that translate the marks into transcriptional regulation: reader-effectors. Here, we review recent studies that reveal how reader-effectors drive chromatin-mediated processes. Advances in proteomics and epigenomics have accelerated the discovery of chromatin marks and their correlation with gene states, outpacing our understanding of the corresponding reader-effectors. Therefore, we summarize the current state of knowledge and open questions about how reader-effectors impact cellular function and human disease and discuss how synthetic biology can deepen our knowledge of reader-effector activity.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:47

Enthalten in:

Trends in biochemical sciences - 47(2022), 5 vom: 30. Mai, Seite 417-432

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Franklin, Kierra A [VerfasserIn]
Shields, Cara E [VerfasserIn]
Haynes, Karmella A [VerfasserIn]

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Volltext

Themen:

9007-49-2
Cell developmental disease
Chromatin
Chromatin modifications
DNA
Epigenome
Histones
Journal Article
Protein engineering
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Signal integration
Transcriptional regulation

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Date Completed 19.04.2022

Date Revised 02.05.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.tibs.2022.03.002

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM339569433