Chromatin accessibility: methods, mechanisms, and biological insights

AR Mansisidor, VI Risca - Nucleus, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Access to DNA is a prerequisite to the execution of essential cellular processes that include
transcription, replication, chromosomal segregation, and DNA repair. How the proteins that …

[PDF][PDF] Promoters recognized by forkhead proteins exist for individual 21U-RNAs

G Cecere, GXY Zheng, AR Mansisidor, KE Klymko… - Molecular cell, 2012 - cell.com
C. elegans 21U-RNAs are equivalent to the piRNAs discovered in other metazoans and have
important roles in gametogenesis and transposon control. The biogenesis and molecular …

[HTML][HTML] A Conserved PHD Finger Protein and Endogenous RNAi Modulate Insulin Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans

AR Mansisidor, G Cecere, S Hoersch, MB Jensen… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Insulin signaling has a profound effect on longevity and the oxidative stress resistance of
animals. Inhibition of insulin signaling results in the activation of DAF-16/FOXO and SKN-1/Nrf …

[PDF][PDF] Condensin and Hmo1 mediate a starvation-induced transcriptional position effect within the ribosomal DNA array

D Wang, A Mansisidor, G Prabhakar, A Hochwagen - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Repetitive DNA arrays are important structural features of eukaryotic genomes that are often
heterochromatinized to suppress repeat instability. It is unclear, however, whether all …

Mechanisms of Ribosomal DNA Copy-number Regulation

A Mansisidor - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Repetitive DNA sequences are prevalent throughout the genomes of eukaryotes and are
risk factors for disease because of their inherent instability. DNA repeats also potentiate …

[HTML][HTML] CapSeq and CIP-TAP identify Pol II start sites and reveal capped small RNAs as C. elegans piRNA precursors

W Gu, HC Lee, D Chaves, EM Youngman, GJ Pazour… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Piwi-interacting (pi) RNAs are germline-expressed small RNAs linked to epigenetic
programming. C. elegans piRNAs are thought to be transcribed as independent gene-like loci. To …

Endogenous RNAi and adaptation to environment in C. elegans

A Grishok - Worm, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The contributions of short RNAs to the control of repetitive elements are well documented in
animals and plants. Here, the role of endogenous RNAi and AF10 homolog ZFP-1 in the …

[HTML][HTML] The RNase PARN-1 trims piRNA 3′ ends to promote transcriptome surveillance in C. elegans

W Tang, S Tu, HC Lee, Z Weng, CC Mello - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) engage Piwi proteins to suppress transposons and are
essential for fertility in diverse organisms. An interesting feature of piRNAs is that, while piRNA …

[PDF][PDF] The ZFP-1 (AF10)/DOT-1 complex opposes H2B ubiquitination to reduce Pol II transcription

G Cecere, S Hoersch, MB Jensen, S Dixit, A Grishok - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
The inhibition of transcriptional elongation plays an important role in gene regulation in
metazoans, including C. elegans. Here, we combine genomic and biochemical approaches to …

[HTML][HTML] The proline-rich domain of MML-1 is biologically important but not required for localization to target promoters

A Ceballos, R Esse, A Grishok - microPublication Biology, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The only representative of the MYC superfamily transcription factors in C. elegans, MML-1 (Myc
and Mondo-like 1), was shown to promote extended lifespan in a variety of models and …