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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Pervasive transcription fine-tunes replication origin activity

    Tito Candelli, Julien Gros, Domenico Libri
    The pervasive transcription environment alters the efficiency of firing of replication origins, which are 'protected' by roadblock termination due to origin recognition complex (ORC) and pre-RC complexes.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    ATRX promotes maintenance of herpes simplex virus heterochromatin during chromatin stress

    Joseph M Cabral, Hyung Suk Oh, David M Knipe
    Epigenetic restriction of herpes simplex virus occurs in a biphasic manner, in which ATRX maintains viral heterochromatin after an initial phase of chromatin deposition.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    Dynamic multifactor hubs interact transiently with sites of active transcription in Drosophila embryos

    Mustafa Mir, Michael R Stadler ... Michael B Eisen
    The probability of transcription factors binding to their target sites is choreographed through the formation of dynamic multi-protein hubs that transiently interact with actively transcribing genes.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Biosynthesis of histone messenger RNA employs a specific 3' end endonuclease

    Ilaria Pettinati, Pawel Grzechnik ... Christopher J Schofield
    MBLAC1 is an endoribonuclease specific for replication dependent histone pre-mRNA processing during S-phase and may represent a new type of cancer target.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Multi-protein bridging factor 1(Mbf1), Rps3 and Asc1 prevent stalled ribosomes from frameshifting

    Jiyu Wang, Jie Zhou ... Elizabeth J Grayhack
    An eukaryotic specific system cooperates with the ribosome quality control pathway to maintain the reading frame during translation of slowly translated sequences.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    DNA sequence encodes the position of DNA supercoils

    Sung Hyun Kim, Mahipal Ganji ... Cees Dekker
    Single-molecule experiments reveal that plectonemic supercoils occupy specific positions on DNA and a physical model relates this to the intrinsic curvature, providing an insight into how supercoiling organizes the genome.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    General decapping activators target different subsets of inefficiently translated mRNAs

    Feng He, Alper Celik ... Allan Jacobson
    Dhh1, Pat1, and Lsm1 target subsets of cellular mRNAs for decapping via interactions of these regulatory proteins with the C-terminal domain of Dcp2, the catalytic component of the decapping enzyme.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Highly efficient 5' capping of mitochondrial RNA with NAD+ and NADH by yeast and human mitochondrial RNA polymerase

    Jeremy G Bird, Urmimala Basu ... Bryce E Nickels
    Eukaryotic mitochondrial RNA polymerases cap RNA with NAD with much higher efficiencies than nuclear RNA polymerase II; as a consequence, mitochondrial RNAs have remarkably high levels of NAD capping.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Sae2/CtIP prevents R-loop accumulation in eukaryotic cells

    Nodar Makharashvili, Sucheta Arora ... Tanya T Paull
    The CtIP DNA repair enzyme is required for the removal of transcription-associated lesions in eukaryotic cells.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Genome-wide Estrogen Receptor-α activation is sustained, not cyclical

    Andrew N Holding, Amy E Cullen, Florian Markowetz
    Activation of the Estrogen Receptor by estra-2-diol results in sustained binding and the previously described cyclical response kinetics are likely an artefact of observing a highly variable process without replicates.