Replicating Nucleosomes.
Eukaryotic replication disrupts each nucleosome as the fork passes, followed by re-assembly of disrupted nucleosomes and incorporation of newly synthesized histones into nucleosomes in the daughter genomes. In this review, we examine this process of replication-coupled nucleosome assembly to understand how characteristic steady state nucleosome landscapes are attained. Recent studies have begun to elucidate mechanisms involved in histone transfer during replication and maturation of the nucleosome landscape after disruption by replication. A fuller understanding of replication-coupled nucleosome assembly will be needed to explain how epigenetic information is replicated at every cell division.
Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Srinivas
S
Ramachandran
Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Steven
S
Henikoff
epigenetics; histone modification; histone variants; replication-coupled nucleosome assembly