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Release of linker histone from the nucleosome driven by polyelectrolyte competition with a disordered protein

Highly charged intrinsically disordered proteins are essential regulators of chromatin structure and transcriptional activity. Here we identify a surprising mechanism of molecular competition that relies on the pronounced dynamical disorder present in thes ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

SUV39 SET domains mediate crosstalk of heterochromatic histone marks

Nora Guidotti, Beat Fierz, Sinan Kilic

Y The SUV39 class of methyltransferase enzymes deposits histone H3 lysine 9 di- and trimethylation (H3K9me2/3), the hallmark of constitutive heterochromatin. How these enzymes are regulated to mark specific genomic regions as heterochromatic is poorly unde ...

eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD2021

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

Single-molecule kinetic analysis of HP1-chromatin binding reveals a dynamic network of histone modification and DNA interactions

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Louise Catherine Bryan, Georg Fantner, Pascal Damian Odermatt, Oliver Hantschel, Sandrine Madeleine Suzanne Georgeon, Beat Fierz, Sinan Kilic, Carolin Christine Lechner, Andreas Linus Bachmann, Daniel Robert Weilandt

Chromatin recruitment of effector proteins involved in gene regulation depends on multivalent interaction with histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) and structural features of the chromatin fiber. Due to the complex interactions involved, it is c ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2017

Heterochromatin protein 1 recruitment and chromatin conformational dynamics at the single-molecule level

Sinan Kilic

Chromatin is the template on which DNA-associated transactions take place in eukaryotic organisms. Nucleosomes consisting of the four histones H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 each organize ~150bp of DNA and constitute a first layer of chromatin. The three-dimensional ...

EPFL2017

Heterochromatin Assembly and Dynamics on the Single Molecule Level

Louise Catherine Bryan, Beat Fierz, Sinan Kilic

Cell Press2015

Multivalency governs HP1α association dynamics with the silent chromatin state

Louise Catherine Bryan, Beat Fierz, Sinan Kilic, Andreas Linus Bachmann

Multivalent interactions between effector proteins and histone post-translational modifications are an elementary mechanism of dynamic chromatin signalling. Here we elucidate the mechanism how heterochromatin protein 1α (HP1α), a multivalent effector, is e ...

Nature Research2015