• Modeling population size independent tissue epigenomes by ChIL-seq with single thin sections.

  Maehara K, Tomimatsu K, Harada A, Tanaka K, Sato S, Fukuoka M, Okada S, Handa T, Kurumizaka H, Saitoh N, Kimura H, Ohkawa Y
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• Editorial overview: New insights and complexities for chromatin interacting proteins.

  Hager LG, Kurumizaka H
  Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2021 Dec ;71:59-64. doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2021.05.011.

• Neural stem/precursor cells dynamically change their epigenetic landscape to differentially respond to BMP signaling for fate switching during brain development.

  Katada S, Takouda J, Nakagawa T, Honda M, Igarashi K, Imamura T, Ohkawa Y, Sato S, Kurumizaka H, Nakashima K
  Genes Dev. 2021 Nov 1;35(21-22):1431-1444. doi: 10.1101/gad.348797.121.

• Cryo-EM structure of the nucleosome core particle containing Giardia lamblia histones.

  Sato S, Takizawa Y, Hoshikawa F, Dacher M, Tanaka H, Tachiwana H, Kujirai T, Iikura Y, Ho C, Adachi N, Patwal I, Flaus A, Kurumizaka H
  Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Sep 7;49(15):8934-8946. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab644.

• Structural basis for DNA sequence recognition by pioneer factors in nucleosomes.

  Kagawa W, Kurumizaka H
  Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2021 Dec;71:59-64. doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2021.05.011.

• The N-terminal tails of histones H2A and H2B adopt two distinct conformations in the nucleosome with contact and reduced contact to DNA.

  Ohtomo H, Kurita JI, Sakuraba S, Li Z, Arimura Y, Wakamori M, Tsunaka Y, Umehara T, Kurumizaka H, Kono H, Nishimura Y
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• Chromatin structure-dependent histone incorporation revealed by a genome-wide deposition assay.

  Tachiwana H, Dacher M, Maehara K, Harada A, Seto Y, Katayama R, Ohkawa Y, Kimura H, Kurumizaka H, Saitoh N
  Elife. 2021 May 10;10:e66290. doi: 10.7554/eLife.66290.

• Sequence-dependent nucleosome formation in trinucleotide repeats evaluated by in vivo chemical mapping.

  Katsumata K, Ichikawa Y, Fuse T, Kurumizaka H, Yanagida A, Urano T, Kato H, Shimizu M
  Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2021 Jun 4;556:179-184. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.03.155.

• Contributions of histone variants in nucleosome structure and function.

  Kurumizaka H, Kujirai T, Takizawa Y
  J Mol Biol. 2021 Mar 19;433(6):166678. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.10.012.

• H4K20me1 and H3K27me3 are concurrently loaded onto the inactive X chromosome but dispensable for inducing gene silencing.

  Tjalsma SJD, Hori M, Sato Y, Bousard A, Ohi A, Raposo AC, Roensch J, Le Saux A, Nogami J, Maehara K, Kujirai T, Handa T, Bagés-Arnal S, Ohkawa Y, Kurumizaka H, da Rocha ST, Żylicz JJ, Kimura H, Heard E
  EMBO Rep. 2021 Mar 3;22(3):e51989. doi: 10.15252/embr.202051989. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

• Histone variant H2A.B-H2B dimers are spontaneously exchanged with canonical H2A-H2B in the nucleosome.

  Hirano R, Arimura Y, Kujirai T, Shibata M, Okuda A, Morishima K, Inoue R, Sugiyama M, Kurumizaka H
  Commun Biol. 2021 Feb 12;4(1):191. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01707-z.

• Structural basis of nucleosomal histone H4 lysine 20 methylation by SET8 methyltransferase.

  Ho CH, Takizawa Y, Kobayashi W, Arimura Y, Kimura H, Kurumizaka H
  Life Sci Alliance. 2021 Feb 11;4(4):e202000919. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202000919.

• Live-cell epigenome manipulation by synthetic histone acetylation catalyst system.

  Fujiwara Y, Yamanashi Y, Fujimura A, Sato Y, Kujirai T, Kurumizaka H, Kimura H, Yamatsugu K, Kawashima S, Kanai M
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Jan 26;118(4):e2019554118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2019554118.

• Cryo-EM structure of the CENP-A nucleosome in complex with phosphorylated CENP-C.

  Ariyoshi M, Makino F, Watanabe R, Nakagawa R, Kato T, Namba K, Arimura Y, Fujita R, Kurumizaka H, Okumura E, Hara M, Fukagawa T
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