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Chromatin dynamics during spermiogenesis.

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This review highlights the current knowledge on post-meiotic chromatin reorganization and reveals for the first time intriguing parallels in this process in Drosophila and mammals and illustrates the possible mechanisms that lead from a histone-based chromatin to a mainly protamine-based structure during spermatid differentiation.
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This article is published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta.The article was published on 2014-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 411 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Histone code & Chromatin.

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RNA from a simple-tandem repeat is required for sperm maturation and male fertility in Drosophila melanogaster.

TL;DR: Comparisons between closely related Drosophila species suggest that satellites and their transcription evolve quickly to generate new functions, and finding AAGAG transcripts are necessary for male fertility is striking.
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Estrogen, through estrogen receptor 1, regulates histone modifications and chromatin remodeling during spermatogenesis in adult rats.

TL;DR: The activating and repressing histone marks in spermatozoa, which play a critical role in early embryo development, were deregulated after both the ESR agonist treatments, highlighting the importance of ESRs in regulating different epigenetic processes during spermatogenesis, which are crucial for male fertility.
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Transposon-driven transcription is a conserved feature of vertebrate spermatogenesis and transcript evolution.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that LTRs can act as tissue‐specific promoters and contribute to post‐mitotic spermatogenic transcriptome diversity and the proposed transposon promoters are a mechanism by which the genome can explore novel transcriptional substrates, increasing evolutionary plasticity and allowing for the genesis of novel coding and non‐coding genes.
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Redox reactions in mammalian spermatogenesis and the potential targets of reactive oxygen species under oxidative stress.

TL;DR: Sulfoxidation of chromatin is a unique process in sperm maturation, and GPX4 has emerged as a promising enzyme that plays essential roles in the production of fertile sperm, but the involvement of other redox proteins is also becoming evident.
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The language of covalent histone modifications.

TL;DR: It is proposed that distinct histone modifications, on one or more tails, act sequentially or in combination to form a ‘histone code’ that is, read by other proteins to bring about distinct downstream events.
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Proteasome inhibitors: valuable new tools for cell biologists.

TL;DR: The actions of selective proteasome inhibitors are described, how they can be used to investigate cellular responses, the functions of the proteasomes demonstrated by such studies and their potential applications in the future.
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Identification of 67 Histone Marks and Histone Lysine Crotonylation as a New Type of Histone Modification

TL;DR: The identification of 67 previously undescribed histone modifications is reported, increasing the current number of known histone marks by about 70%, and lysine crotonylation (Kcr) is investigated, confirming that it represents an evolutionarily-conserved histone posttranslational modification.
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comprehensive molecular insect science

TL;DR: Includes: Molecular Genetics of Insect Fertilization Sex Determination and the Development of the Genital Disc Dosage Compensation Fat-Cell Development The Juvenile Hormones.
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