References -- Eukaryotic Transcriptional Regulation

BIOC/MCB 568 -- Fall 2010
John W. Little--University of Arizona

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Reviews:

Start with the first two:

Fuda, N.J., Ardehali, M.B. and Lis, J.T. Nature 461, 186-192 (2009). "Defining mechanisms that regulate RNA polymerase II transcription in vivo".

Cairns, B.R. Nature 461, 193-198 (2009). "The logic of chromatin architecture and remodelling at promoters".

Struhl, K. Cell 98: 1-4 (1999). "Fundamentally different logic of gene regulation in eukaryotes and prokaryotes."

Merika, M. and Thanos, D. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 11: 205-208 (2001). "Enhanceosomes."

Jenuwein, T. and Allis, C. D. Science 293: 1074-1080 (2001). "Translating the histone code."

Längst, G. and Becker, P.B. Biochim. Biophys. Acta Gene Struct. Expression 1677: 58-63 (2004). "Nucleosome remodeling: one mechanism, many phenomena?"

Gaszner, M. and Felsenfeld, G. Nature Reviews Genetics 7: 703-713 (2006). "Insulators: exploiting transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms."

Li, B., Carey, M., and Workman, J. L. Cell 128: 707-719 (2007). "The role of chromatin during transcription."

Kouzarides, T. Cell 128: 693-705 (2007). "Chromatin modifications and their function."

Enhanceosomes

Panne, D., Maniatis, T. and Harrison, S.C. Cell 129, 1111-1123 (2007). "An atomic model of the interferon-beta enhanceosome."

Evolution of Regulatory Circuitry

Prud'homme, B., Gompel, N. and Carroll, S.B. PNAS 104, 8605-8612 (2007). "Emerging principles of regulatory evolution". Makes the case that most evolution of regulation occurs by changes in cis-acting sites.

Chan, Y.F. et al. Science 327, 302-305 (2010). "Adaptive evolution of pelvic reduction in sticklebacks by recurrent deletion of a Pitx1 enhancer."

Little, J.W. Current Biology 20, R724-R734 (2010). "Evolution of complex gene regulatory circuits by addition of refinements." There are several more reviews about evolution of regulatory circuitry in this issue of Current Biology, including the following.

Li, H. and Johnson, A.D. Current Biology 20, R746-R753 (2010). "Evolution of transcription networks -- lessons from yeasts". Includes latest evidence on evolution mating type loci.

Papers

Segal, E., Fondufe-Mittendorf, Y., Chen,, L., Thastrom, A., Field, Y. Moore, I.K., Wang, J.Z. and Widom J. Nature 442, 772-778 (2006)."A genomic code for nucleosome positioning."