Publications | Genome Modality

Science . 2021 May 28;372(6545):984-989. doi: 10.1126/science.abe2218.

3D genomics across the tree of life reveals condensin II as a determinant of architecture type

Claire Hoencamp, Olga Dudchenko, Ahmed M. O. Elbatsh, Sumitabha Brahmachari, Jonne A. Raaijmakers, Tom van Schaik, Ángela Sedeño Cacciatore, Vinícius G. Contessoto, Roy G. H. P. van Heesbeen, Bram van den Broek, Aditya N. Mhaskar, Hans Teunissen, Brian Glenn St Hilaire, David Weisz, Arina D. Omer, Melanie Pham, Zane Colaric, Zhenzhen Yang, Suhas S. P. Rao, Namita Mitra, Christopher Lui, Weijie Yao, Ruqayya Khan, Leonid L. Moroz, Andrea Kohn, Judy St. Leger, Alexandria Mena, Karen Holcroft, Maria Cristina Gambetta, Fabian Lim, Emma Farley, Nils Stein, Alexander Haddad, Daniel Chauss, Ayse Sena Mutlu, Meng C. Wang, Neil D. Young, Evin Hildebrandt, Hans H. Cheng, Christopher J. Knight, Theresa L. U. Burnham, Kevin A. Hovel, Andrew J. Beel, Pierre-Jean Mattei, Roger D. Kornberg, Wesley C. Warren, Gregory Cary, José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta, Veronica Hinman, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Federica Di Palma, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Asha S. Multani, Sen Pathak, Liesl Nel-Themaa, Richard R. Behringer, Parwinder Kaur, René H. Medema, Bas van Steensel, Elzo de Wit, José N. Onuchic, Michele Di Pierro, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Benjamin D. Rowland
Nature Communications 2021 May 18; 12, Article number: 2917. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23205-w

Guiding functions of the C-terminal domain of topoisomerase IIα advance mitotic chromosome assembly

Keishi Shintomi, Tatsuya Hirano
Cell Rep . 2021 Apr 27;35(4):108999. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108999.

Opening of cohesin’s SMC ring is essential for timely DNA replication and DNA loop formation

Ryota Sakata, Kyoma Niwa, Diego Ugarte La Torre, Eri Tahara, Shoji Takada, Tomoko Nishiyama
Nucleic Acids Res . 2021 Apr 22;gkab275. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab275.

Slow chromatin dynamics enhances promoter accessibility to transcriptional condensates

Tetsuya Yamamoto, Takahiro Sakaue, Helmut Schiessel
EMBO J . 2021 Apr 22;e107270. doi: 10.15252/embj.2020107270.

Paraspeckles are constructed as block copolymer micelles

Tomohiro Yamazaki, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hyura Yoshino, Sylvie Souquere, Shinichi Nakagawa, Gerard Pierron, Tetsuro Hirose
Mol Cell. 2021 Apr 15;81(8):1579-1585. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.03.046.

Is transcriptional regulation just going through a phase?

Geeta J Narlikar, Sua Myong, Daniel Larson, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Nicole Francis, Karsten Rippe, Benjamin Sabari, Lucia Strader, Robert Tjian
Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol . 2021 Apr 5;a040675. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a040675.

Physical Nature of Chromatin in the Nucleus

Kazuhiro Maeshima, Shiori Iida and Sachiko Tamura
Life Sci Alliance . 2021 Feb 3;4(4):e202001005. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202001005.

1,6-hexanediol rapidly immobilizes and condenses chromatin in living human cells

Yuji Itoh, Shiori Iida , Sachiko Tamura, Ryosuke Nagashima, Kentaro Shiraki, Tatsuhiko Goto, Kayo Hibino, Satoru Ide, Kazuhiro Maeshima*
Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 48(22), pp.12648-12659 (2020). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1050

Quantification of the effect of site-specific histone acetylation on chromatin transcription rate

Masatoshi Wakamori, Kohki Okabe*, Kiyoe Ura, Takashi Funatsu, Masahiro Takinoue*, and Takashi Umehara*
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2020, 9, 10, 2819–2827, https://doi.org /10.1021/acssynbio.0c00360

Elucidating the Membrane Dynamics and Encapsulation Mechanism of Large DNA Molecules under Macromolecular Crowding Condition Using Giant Unilamellar Vesicles

Mamiko Tsugane and Hiroaki Suzuki*