• Parallel mapping with site-directed hydroxyl radicals and micrococcal nuclease reveals structural features of positioned nucleosomes in vivo.

  Fuse T, Katsumata K, Morohoshi K, Mukai Y, Ichikawa Y, Kurumizaka H, Yanagida A, Urano T, Kato H, Shimizu M.
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• Phosphorylation of CBX2 controls its nucleosome-binding specificity.

  Kawaguchi T, Machida S, Kurumizaka H, Tagami H, Nakayama JI.
  J Biochem. 2017 Nov 1;162(5):343-355. doi: 10.1093/jb/mvx040.

• Histone H3 Methylated at Arginine 17 Is Essential for Reprogramming the Paternal Genome in Zygotes.

  Hatanaka Y, Tsusaka T, Shimizu N, Morita K, Suzuki T, Machida S, Satoh M, Honda A, Hirose M, Kamimura S, Ogonuki N, Nakamura T, Inoue K, Hosoi Y, Dohmae N, Nakano T, Kurumizaka H, Matsumoto K, Shinkai Y, Ogura A.
  Cell Rep. 2017 Sep 19;20(12):2756-2765. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.08.088.

• SYCP3 regulates strand invasion activities of RAD51 and DMC1.

  Kobayashi W, Hosoya N, Machida S, Miyagawa K, Kurumizaka H.
  Genes Cells. 2017 Sep;22(9):799-809. doi: 10.1111/gtc.12513. Epub 2017 Jul 26.

• Association of M18BP1/KNL2 with CENP-A Nucleosome Is Essential for Centromere Formation in Non-mammalian Vertebrates.

  Hori T, Shang WH, Hara M, Ariyoshi M, Arimura Y, Fujita R, Kurumizaka H, Fukagawa T.
  Dev Cell. 2017 Jul 24;42(2):181-189.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.06.019.

• RFWD3-Mediated Ubiquitination Promotes Timely Removal of Both RPA and RAD51 from DNA Damage Sites to Facilitate Homologous Recombination.

  Inano S, Sato K, Katsuki Y, Kobayashi W, Tanaka H, Nakajima K, Nakada S, Miyoshi H, Knies K, Takaori-Kondo A, Schindler D, Ishiai M, Kurumizaka H, Takata M.
  Mol Cell. 2017 Jun 1;66(5):622-634.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.04.022.

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• Structure and Dynamics of a 197 bp Nucleosome in Complex with Linker Histone H1.

  Bednar J, Garcia-Saez I, Boopathi R, Cutter AR, Papai G, Reymer A, Syed SH, Lone IN, Tonchev O, Crucifix C, Menoni H, Papin C, Skoufias DA, Kurumizaka H, Lavery R, Hamiche A, Hayes JJ, Schultz P, Angelov D, Petosa C, Dimitrov S.
  Mol Cell. 2017 May 4;66(3):384-397.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.04.012.

• Crystal structure of the overlapping dinucleosome composed of hexasome and octasome.

  Kato D, Osakabe A, Arimura Y, Mizukami Y, Horikoshi N, Saikusa K, Akashi S, Nishimura Y, Park SY, Nogami J, Maehara K, Ohkawa Y, Matsumoto A, Kono H, Inoue R, Sugiyama M, Kurumizaka H.
  Science 2017 Apr 14;356(6334):205-208. doi: 10.1126/science.aak9867.

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• Crystal structure and characterization of novel human histone H3 variants, H3.6, H3.7, and H3.8.

  Taguchi H, Xie Y, Horikoshi N, Maehara K, Harada A, Nogami J, Sato K, Arimura Y, Osakabe A, Kujirai T, Iwasaki T, Semba Y, Tachibana T, Kimura H, Ohkawa Y, Kurumizaka H.
  Biochemistry. 2017 Apr 4. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01098. Epub 2017 Apr 10.

• Influence of polynucleosome preparation methods on sedimentation velocity analysis of chromatin.

  Kujirai T, Machida S, Osakabe A, Kurumizaka H.
  The Journal of Biochemistry, Volume 161, Issue 4, 1 April 2017, Pages 381–388,

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• Histone Variant H2A.L.2 Guides Transition Protein-Dependent Protamine Assembly in Male Germ Cells.

  Barral S, Morozumi Y, Tanaka H, Montellier E, Govin J, de Dieuleveult M, Charbonnier G, Coute Y, Puthier D, Buchou T, Boussouar F, Urahama T, Fenaille F, Curtet S, Hery P, Fernandez-Nunez N, Shiota H, Gerard M, Rousseaux S, Kurumizaka H, Khochbin S.
  Mol Cell. 2017 Mar 18. pii: S1097-2765(17)30162-4. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.02.025. Epub 2017 Mar 30.

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• Polymorphism of apyrimidinic DNA structures in the nucleosome.

  Osakabe A, Arimura Y, Matsumoto S,Horikoshi N, Sugasawa K, Kurumizaka H.
  Sci Rep. 2017 Jan 31;7:41783. doi: 10.1038/srep41783.

• Identification of the amino acid residues responsible for stable nucleosome formation by histone H3.Y.

  Kujirai T, Horikoshi N, Xie Y, Taguchi H, Kurumizaka H.
  Nucleus. 2017 Jan 24:1-10. doi: 10.1080/19491034.2016.1277303. Epub 2017 Jan 24.

• Testis-Specific histone variant H3t gene is essential for entry into spermatogenesis.

  Ueda J, Harada A, Urahama T, Machida S, Maehara K, Hada M, Makino Y, Nogami J, Horikoshi N, Osakabe A, Taguchi H, Tanaka H, Tachiwana H, Yao T, Yamada M, Iwamoto T, Isotani A, Ikawa M, Tachibana T, Okada Y, Kimura H, Ohkawa Y, Kurumizaka H, Yamagata K.
  Cell Rep. 2017 Jan 17;18(3):593-600. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.12.065.

• In vitro reconstitution and biochemical analyses of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe nucleosome.

  Koyama M, Nagakura W, Tanaka H, Kujirai T, Chikashige Y, Haraguchi T, Hiraoka Y, ,and Kurumizaka H.
  Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2017 Jan 22;482(4):896-901. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.11.130. Epub 2016 Nov 24.