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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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Abnormal histone replacement following BPA exposure affects spermatogenesis and fertility sequentially.

TL;DR: In this article , the effects of BPA exposure on epigenetic regulation and the histone-to-protamine (PRM) transition were investigated in testes and spermatozoa.
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Histone variants and posttranslational modifications in spermatogenesis and infertility

TL;DR: This chapter focuses primarily on the disturbance of spermatogenesis resulting from alterations of somatic and variant histones that, in the late stages, are replaced by transition proteins and subsequently by protamines.
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Endogenous RNAi silences a burgeoning sex chromosome arms race

TL;DR: Comparisons of D. simulans and D. melanogaster mutants of the core RNAi factor dcr-2 reveal a substantially expanded network of recently-emerged hpRNA-target interactions in the former species, and suggest that endo-RNAi are especially critical during incipient stages of intrinsic sex chromosome conflicts, and that continual cycles of distortion and resolution may contribute to the segregation of species.
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Loss of the cleaved-protamine 2 domain leads to incomplete histone-to-protamine exchange and infertility in mice

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the cleaved PRM2 (cP2) domain in sperm chromatin packaging was investigated and it was shown that deletion of one allele of the cP2 domain is sufficient to render male mice infertile.
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Histone H4 acetylation is dysregulated in active seminiferous tubules adjacent to testicular tumours.

TL;DR: The results suggest that, despite presenting spermatogenic activity, the global epigenetic dysregulation found in the testicular tumour patients could lead to molecular alterations of the male germ cells.
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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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