Webinar Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Tri-I community)
Friday, October 15, 2021
Karolin Luger, Ph.D.
Jennie Smoly Caruthers Endowed Chair of Biochemistry and Professor
University of Colorado Boulder
In the Beginning, There Were Histones: Nucleosomes in Non-eukaryotic Organisms
Recommended Readings:
Empirical Articles
Liu, Y., Bisio, H., Toner, C.M., Jeudy, S., Phillippe, N., Zhou, K., Bowerman, S., White, A.E., Edwards, G., Abergel, C., et al. (2021). Virus-encoded histone doublets are essential and form nucleosome-like structures. CELL. 184 (16): 423
Bowerman, S., Wereszczynski, J., and Luger, K. (2021). Archaeal chromatin ‘slinkies’ are inherently dynamic complexes with deflected DNA wrapping pathways. ELIFE. 10
Mattiroli, F., Bhattacharyya, S., Dyer, P.N., White, A.E., Sandman, K., Burkhart, B.W., Byrne, K.R., Lee, T., Ahn, N.G., Santangelo, T.J., et al. (2017a). Structure of histone-based chromatin in Archaea. SCIENCE. 357 (6351): 609-612
Edayathumangalam, R.S., Weyermann, P., Dervan, P.B., Gottesfeld, J.M., and Luger, K. (2005). Nucleosomes in Solution Exist as a Mixture of Twist-defect States. JOURNAL Mol Biol. 345: 103-114
Edayathumangalam, R.S., Weyermann, P., Gottesfeld, J.M., Dervan, P.B., and Luger, K. (2004). Molecular recognition of the nucleosomal “supergroove”. PNAS. 101: 6864-6869
Review Papers
Laursen, SP; Bowerman, S. and Luger, K. (2021). Archaea: The Final Frontier of Chromatin. JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 433 (6)
Markert, J. and Luger, K. (2021). Nucleosomes Meet Their Remodeler Match. TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES. 46 (1): 41-50
Zhou, K.D.; Gaullier, G. and Luger, K. (2019). Nucleosome structure and dynamics are coming of age. NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. 26 (1): 3-13
Book Chapter
Andrews, A.J. and Luger, K. (2011). Nucleosome Structure(s) and Stability: Variations on a Theme. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS. 40 (40): 99-117