It is revealed that the C-terminal IDR of mammalian ALKBH5 anchors its main activity to mRNA, limiting chromatin engagement in mouse embryonic stem cells, and a conserved role for IDRs in restraining chromatin access by RNA and histone demethylases is uncovered.
Chromatin accessibility varies widely across distinct genomic regions in eukaryotes, yet the mechanisms governing these differential patterns remain poorly understood. Here, we identify a subfamily of functionally redundant J-domain proteins (JDPs) that assemble into a protein complex with PICKLE (PKL), an evolutionari...
Bin-Bin Guan, Zi-Juan Yan, Ping Du et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
Nucleosomes organize genomes and regulate DNA access, yet accumulating evidence suggests that their constituent histones may have functions beyond canonical chromatin regulation, but the breadth of such regulatory diversity remains unclear. Here, we used the six-residue loop 2 (L2) of H2A and H2A.Z to map, at single-re...
Zachary H. Harvey, Benjamin Gundinger, Jian-Yi Kok et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
SPIN1 uses a histone-state-based mechanism to identify and repress young TEs in pluripotent cells, mechanistically distinct from its germline mode in which SPIN1 cooperates with the PIWI–piRNA pathway to promote DNA methylation, illustrating how a single histone reader engages distinct silencing machineries across cell...
Hiromi Yamada, Chikara Takeuchi, Clive S. Barker et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
The findings uncover a non-canonical mechanism whereby a chromatin remodeler regulates transcription primarily through three-dimensional genome organization rather than local accessibility control, and establish histone modification-guided chromatin remodeling as a key principle in gene regulation.
Ming Yu, Jingdong Xue, Qi Zhang et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
It is found that transcriptional outcome of PKL binding depends not only on the changes in H3.3 occupancy but also on the pre-existing chromatin context at PKL-targeted sites, which outlines a new mechanism for CHD3 chromatin remodeler recruitment and function.
Shu-Ya Wang, Colette L. Picard, Zhong-Shou Wu et al.· bioRxiv· 0 citations
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