In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we caught up with Sarah Kinkley from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics to talk about her work on PHF13 and its role in chromatin and transcription.
The Kinkley laboratory focuses mainly on unraveling the mechanism of action of the transcription factor PHF13 (PHC Finger Protein 13). PHF13 is a reader of the epigenetic mark H3K4 trimethylation which influences higher chromatin order, transcriptional regulation, and differentiation. The lab has shown that PHF13 plays a crucial role in phase separation and mitotic chromatin compaction.
References
Kinkley, S., Staege, H., Mohrmann, G., Rohaly, G., Schaub, T., Kremmer, E., Winterpacht, A., & Will, H. (2009). SPOC1: a novel PHD-containing protein modulating chromatin structure and mitotic chromosome condensation. Journal of cell science, 122(Pt 16), 2946–2956. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.047365
Chung, H. R., Xu, C., Fuchs, A., Mund, A., Lange, M., Staege, H., Schubert, T., Bian, C., Dunkel, I., Eberharter, A., Regnard, C., Klinker, H., Meierhofer, D., Cozzuto, L., Winterpacht, A., Di Croce, L., Min, J., Will, H., & Kinkley, S. (2016). PHF13 is a molecular reader and transcriptional co-regulator of H3K4me2/3. eLife, 5, e10607. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.10607
Connecting the Dots: PHF13 and cohesin promote polymer-polymer phase separation of chromatin into chromosomes. Francesca Rossi, Rene Buschow, Laura V. Glaser, Tobias Schubert, Hannah Staege, Astrid Grimme, Hans Will, Thorsten Milke, Martin Vingron, Andrea M. Chiariello, Sarah Kinkley. bioRxiv 2022.03.04.482956; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.04.482956
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