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• Asymmetric fluctuation of overlapping dinucleosome studied by cryoelectron microscopy and small-angle X-ray scattering.
  

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• The C-terminal 4CXXC-type zinc finger domain of CDCA7 recognizes hemimethylated DNA and modulates activities of chromatin remodeling enzyme HELLS.
  

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• Molecular and structural basis of the chromatin remodeling activity by Arabidopsis DDM1.
  

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• BOD1L mediates chromatin binding and non-canonical function of H3K4 methyltransferase SETD1A.
  

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• Cryo-EM structure and biochemical analyses of the nucleosome containing the cancer-associated histone H3 mutation E97K.
  

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• Diversification of von Willebrand Factor A and Chitin-Binding Domains in Pif/BMSPs Among Mollusks.
  

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• ISWI chromatin remodeling complexes recruit NSD2 and H3K36me2 in pericentromeric heterochromatin.
  

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• Structural and Functional Analysis of the Amorphous Calcium Carbonate-Binding Protein Paramyosin in the Shell of the Pearl Oyster, Pinctada fucata.
  

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• High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals the Nucleosome Sliding and DNA Unwrapping/Wrapping Dynamics of Tail-less Nucleosomes.
  

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• Cryo-EM structures of RAD51 assembled on nucleosomes containing a DSB site
  

  Shioi T, Hatazawa S, Oya E, Hosoya N, Kobayashi W, Ogasawara M, Kobayashi T, Takizawa Y, Kurumizaka H.
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• Tropomyosin induces the synthesis of magnesian calcite in sea urchin spines.
  

  Kato Y, Ha W, Zheng Z, Negishi L, Kawano J, Kurita Y, Kurumizaka H, Suzuki M.
  J Struct Biol. 2024 Mar 1. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2024.108074.

• Genome-wide mapping and cryo-EM structural analyses of the overlapping tri-nucleosome composed of hexasome-hexasome-octasome moieties.
  

  Nishimura M, Fujii T, Tanaka H, Maehara K, Morishima K, Shimizu M, Kobayashi Y, Nozawa K, Takizawa Y, Sugiyama M, Ohkawa Y, Kurumizaka H.
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