Olga T Schubert, Joshua S Bloom ... Leonid Kruglyak
A CRISPR/Cas9 base editor screen allows probing interactions between large numbers of known mutations and the abundance of specific proteins to study the protein regulatory network in yeast.
The chromatin regulator WDR5 is a regulator of translation, and small molecule inhibitors or degraders of WDR5 can be used to treat triple-negative breast cancer.
Keith Conrad Fernandez, Laura Feeney ... Jayanta Chaudhuri
A novel conditional mouse model to interrogate the requirements of structure-selective endonucleases in the development, functionality, and genome stability of B lymphocytes.
Desislava P Staneva, Stefan Bresson ... Robin C Allshire
The SPARC complex directs accurate RNAPII positioning for transcription initiation and, in some instances, ensures correct transcription directionality in Trypanosoma brucei.
A newly discovered protein helps define a subset of heterochromatin regions that can silence harmful mobile genetic elements in the genome of fruit flies.
Histone H3 can translocate to the nucleus as a monomer through a pathway governed by importin-5 and transfers to the histone chaperone NASP, having implications in the folding of H3-H4 dimers and, therefore, the kinetics of genome packaging during replication.
A newly discovered pathway suggests histone proteins H3 and H4 are imported into the nucleus as individual units rather than joined together as heterodimers as was previously thought.