Mechanisms of chromatin and transcriptional regulation

组蛋白翻译后修饰（PTM），染色质重塑酶，DNA 甲基化，组蛋白伴侣在组织和控制中起着关键作用。 我们的基因重要的是，蛋白质或酶的破坏或突变 因为染色质调节是许多人类疾病的基础，最显著的是癌症。 我们的长期目标是阐明染色质调控的分子基础 并定义这种调节如何影响人类生物学和疾病。我们的实验室 率先追求这一目标，作出开创性的发现，解释了如何 染色质修饰机器“写”和“读”组蛋白PTM和如何组蛋白 PTM在转录、DNA复制、DNA修复和DNA维持中起作用 甲基化然而，尽管取得了相当大的进展， 差距。例如，在很大程度上不知道组蛋白PTM在细胞内的作用程度。 组合方式。同样，我们也不完全了解 通过染色质中的许多不同的阅读器结构域识别组蛋白PTM， 我们也不完全了解配对的阅读器结构域如何结合 核小体以多价的方式。最后，我们不知道新的功能 鉴定的组蛋白PTM，例如，赖氨酸巴豆酰化有了这个MIRA奖，我们的实验室将 通过回答三个最重要的基本问题来弥补这些知识差距 在染色质生物学：1）如何组蛋白修饰酶和伴侣调节 转录，细胞周期，并保持染色质的完整性？2)最近怎么样 发现组蛋白PTM如巴豆酰化有助于基因调控？3)到 组蛋白PTM在多大程度上协同调节下游功能， 染色质？ !

Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs), chromatin-remodeling enzymes, DNA methylation, and histone chaperones play critical roles in the organization and control of our genomes. Importantly, disruption or mutation of the proteins or enzymes responsible for chromatin regulation underlies a number of human diseases, most notably cancer. Our long-term goal is to elucidate the molecular underpinnings of chromatin regulation and define how this regulation contributes to human biology and disease. Our lab has spearheaded the pursuit of this goal, making seminal discoveries that explain how the chromatin-modifying machinery “writes” and “reads” histone PTMs and how histone PTMs function in transcription, DNA replication, DNA repair, and maintenance of DNA methylation. Yet, despite considerable progress, there remain many crucial knowledge gaps. For example, it is largely unknown the extent to which histone PTMs function in a combinatorial manner. Similarly, we do not fully understand the biochemical basis for recognition of histone PTMs by the many different reader domains in chromatin- associated proteins nor do we fully understand how paired reader domains bind nucleosomes in a multivalent manner. Finally, we do not know the functions of newly identified histone PTMs, e.g., lysine crotonylation. With this MIRA award, our lab will close these knowledge gaps by answering three of the foremost fundamental questions in chromatin biology: 1) How do histone-modifying enzymes and chaperones regulate transcription, the cell cycle, and maintain chromatin integrity? 2) How do recently discovered histone PTMs such as crotonylation contribute to gene regulation? 3) To what extent do histone PTMs collaborate to regulate downstream functions in chromatin? !