Nucleosome dynamics and analysis in breast cancer cells

Genome-wide analysis of the nucleosome positioning and histone H1 isoform content of the T47D breast cancer cell line has found a number of observations, namely that with a gentle digestion of microccocal nuclease (MNase), a nucleosome is visible just upstream of the transcription start site, in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Pohl, Andy
Format: doctoral thesis
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2014
Country:España
Institution:CBUC, CESCA
Repository:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/328416
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/328416
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Epigenètica
Histona
Nucleosoma
Programari
Genoma
ADN
Càncer de pit
Progesterona
Bioinformàtica
Genòmica
Hormona
Regulació genètica
Transcripcio
Genomics
Histone
Epigenetics
DNA
Breast cancer
Progesterone
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Summary:Genome-wide analysis of the nucleosome positioning and histone H1 isoform content of the T47D breast cancer cell line has found a number of observations, namely that with a gentle digestion of microccocal nuclease (MNase), a nucleosome is visible just upstream of the transcription start site, in the region known as the “nucleosome-free region” (NFR). H1 isoforms bind to chromatin mainly in a redundant manner, but H1.2 and H1.3 show some specificity while H1.5 increases its binding dramatically after a progesterone stimulus. In the course of these studies, a general-purpose software package was developed for the manipulation and analysis of bigWig files, a data format for storing continuous signal data assigned to genome coordinates