Chromosome folding: driver or passenger of epigenetic state?

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Date publication

février 2015

Journal

Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr SEXTON Thomas


Tous les auteurs :
Sexton T, Yaffe E

Résumé

Despite a growing understanding of how epigenetic marks such as histone modifications locally modify the activity of the chromatin with which they are associated, we know little about how marked regions on different parts of the genome are able to intercommunicate to effect regulation of gene expression programs. Recent advances in methods that systematically map pairwise chromatin interactions have uncovered important principles of chromosome folding, which are tightly linked to the epigenetic mark profiles and, hence, functional state of the underlying chromatin fiber.

Mots clés

Animals, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Chromosomes, chemistry, Epigenomics, Gene Expression Regulation

Référence

Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2015 Feb 2;7(2):a018721