Publications by Iuliia Boichenko

PR-DUB preserves Polycomb repression by preventing excessive accumulation of H2Aub1, an antagonist of chromatin compaction

The Polycomb repressive complexes PRC1, PRC2, and PR-DUB repress target genes by modifying their chromatin. In Drosophila, PRC1 compacts chromatin and monoubiquitinates histone H2A at lysine 118 (H2Aub1), whereas PR-DUB is a major H2Aub1 deubiquitinase, bu ...

2022

Chromatin Fiber Invasion and Nucleosome Displacement by the Rap1 Transcription Factor

Rudolf Hovius, Maxime Nicolas Mivelaz, Beat Fierz, Iuliia Boichenko, Anne-Marinette Thi Phuong Hanh Cao

Pioneer transcription factors (pTFs) bind to target sites within compact chromatin, initiating chromatin remodeling and controlling the recruitment of downstream factors. The mechanisms by which pTFs overcome the chromatin barrier are not well understood. ...

2020

Chemical and biophysical methods to explore dynamic mechanisms of chromatin silencing

Beat Fierz, Iuliia Boichenko

Chromatin, the nucleoprotein complex organizing the genome, is central in regulating gene expression and genome organization. Chromatin conformational dynamics, controlled by histone post-translational modifications (PTM) and effector proteins, play a key ...

2019

Chromatin Remodeling Induced by the Invasion of Yeast Pioneer Transcription Factor Rap1 Revealed by Single-Molecule FRET

Louise Catherine Bryan, Maxime Nicolas Mivelaz, Beat Fierz, Iuliia Boichenko, Anne-Marinette Thi Phuong Hanh Cao

CELL PRESS2019

Single-molecule FRET reveals multiscale chromatin dynamics modulated by HP1α

Louise Catherine Bryan, Beat Fierz, Sinan Kilic, Iuliia Boichenko

The dynamic architecture of chromatin fibers, a key determinant of genome regulation, is poorly understood. Here, we employ multimodal single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer studies to reveal structural states and their interconversion kinetics ...

Nature Research2018

A bi-terminal protein ligation strategy to probe chromatin structure during DNA damage

Beat Fierz, Sinan Kilic, Carolin Christine Lechner, Iuliia Boichenko

The cellular response to DNA damage results in a signaling cascade that primes chromatin for repair. Combinatorial post-translational modifications (PTMs) play a key role in this process by altering the physical properties of chromatin and recruiting downs ...

2018

Chemical Ligand Space of Cereblon

Iuliia Boichenko

The protein cereblon serves as a substrate receptor of a ubiquitin ligase complex that can be tuned toward different target proteins by cereblon-binding agents. This approach to targeted protein degradation is exploited in different clinical settings and h ...

2018