• FANCI-FANCD2 stabilizes the RAD51-DNA complex by binding RAD51 and protects the 5'-DNA end

  Sato K, Shimomuki M, Katsuki Y, Takahashi D, Kobayashi W, Ishiai M, Miyoshi H, Takata M ,and Kurumizaka H
  Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Dec 15;44(22):10758-10771. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw876.

• A genetically encoded probe for live-cell imaging of H4K20 monomethylation.

  Sato Y, Kujirai T, Arai R, Asakawa H, Ohtsuki C, Horikoshi N, Yamagata K, Ueda J,
  Nagase T, Haraguchi T, Hiraoka Y, Kimura A, Kurumizaka H, Kimura H.
  J Mol Biol. 2016 Oct 9;428(20):3885-3902. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.08.010.

• The flexible ends of CENP-A nucleosome are required for mitotic fidelity.

  Rouland Y, Ouararhni K, Naidenov M, Ramos L, Shuaib M, Syed SH, Lone IN, Boopathi R, Fontaine E, Papai G, Tachiwana H, Gautier T, Skoufias D, Padmanabhan K, Bednar J, Kurumizaka H, Schultz P, Angelov D, Hamiche A, Dimitrov S.
  Mol Cell. 2016 Aug 18;63(4):674-85. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.06.023.

• Structure of the human DNA-repair protein RAD52 containing surface mutations.

  Saotome M, Saito K, Onodera K, Kurumizaka H, Kagawa W.
  Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 2016 Aug 1;72:598-603. doi: 10.1107/S2053230X1601027X.

• Crystal structures of heterotypic nucleosomes containing histones H2A.Z and H2A

  Horikoshi N, Arimura Y, Taguchi H, Kurumizaka H
  Open Biol. 2016 Jun 6;6(6). pii:160127 doi: 10.1098/rsob.160127.

• Structural and biochemical analyses of monoubiquitinated human histones H2B and H4

  Machida S, Sekine S, Nishiyama Y, Horikoshi N, Kurumizaka H
  Open Biol. 2016 Jun 6;6(6). pii:160090. doi:10.1098/rsob.160090.

• Sequence-directed nucleosome-depletion is sufficient to activate transcription from a yeast core promoter in vivo.

  Ichikawa Y, Morohashi N, Tomita N, Mitchell AP, Kurumizaka H, Shimizu M.
  Biochem biophys Res Commun. 2016 Jul 22;476(2):57-62. pii: S0006-291X(16)30755-0. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.05.063.

• Chromatin architecture may dictate the target site for DMC1, but not for RAD51, during homologous pairing.

  Kobayashi W, Takaku M, Machida S, Tachiwana H, Maehara K, Ohkawa Y, Kurumizaka H.
  Sci Rep. 2016 Apr 7;6:24228. doi: 10.1038/srep24228.

• Structure and function of human histone H3.Y nucleosome.

  Kujirai T, Horikoshi N, Sato K, Maehara K, Machida S, Osakabe A, Kimura H, Ohkawa Y, Kurumizaka H.
  Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Jul 27;44(13):6127-41. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw202.

• GATA3-dependent cellular reprogramming requires activation-domain dependent recruitment of a chromatin remodeler.

  Takaku M, Grimm SA, Shimbo T, Perera L, Menafra R, Stunnenberg HG, Archer TK, Machida S, Kurumizaka H, Wade PA.
  Genome Biol. 2016 Feb 27;17(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-0897-0.

• C-terminal acidic domain of histone chaperone human NAP1 is an efficient binding assistant for histone H2A-H2B, but not H3-H4.

  Ohtomo H, Akashi S, Moriwaki Y, Okuwaki M, Osakabe A, Nagata K, Kurumizaka H, Nishimura Y.
  Genes Cells. 2016 Mar;21(3):252-63. doi: 10.1111/gtc.12339.

• Crystal structure of the nucleosome
  containing ultraviolet light-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer

  Horikoshi N, Tachiwana H, Kagawa W, Osakabe A, Matsumoto S, Iwai S, Sugasawa K, Kurumizaka H.
  Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2016 Feb 26 ;471(1):117-22. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.01.170.

• Relaxed chromatin formation and weak suppression of homologous pairing by the testis-specific linker histone H1T.

  Machida S, Hayashida R, Takaku M, Fukuto A, Sun J, Kinomura A, Tashiro S, Kurumizaka H.
  Biochemistry. 2016 Feb 2;55(4):637-46. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b01126.

• Histone H3.5 forms an unstable nucleosome and accumulates around transcription start sites in human testis

  Urahama T, Harada A, Maehara K, Horikoshi N, Sato K, Sato Y, Shiraishi K, Sugino N,
  Osakabe A ,Tachiwana H ,Kagawa W , Kimura H ,Ohkawa Y ,Kurumizaka H.
  Epigenetics Chromatin. 2016 Jan 15;9:2 doi: 10.1186/s13072-016-0051-y.

• Crystal structure of the nucleosome containing histone H3
  with crotonylated lysine 122

  Suzuki Y, Horikoshi N, Kato D, Kurumizaka H.
  Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2016 Jan 15; 469(3):483-9

• Bivalent interaction of the PZP domain of BRPF1 with the nucleosome impacts chromatin dynamics and acetylation.

  Klein BJ, Muthurajan UM, Lalonde ME, Gibson MD, Andrews FH, Hepler M, Machida S, Yan K,
  Kurumizaka H, Poirier MG, Cote J, Luger K, Kutateladze TG.
  Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Jan 8;44(1):472-84.