General

Maze, I., K.M. Noh, A.A. Soshnev, and C.D. Allis. 2014. Every amino acid matters: Essential contributions of histone variants to mammalian development and disease. Nat. Rev. Genet. 15:259–271.

Poirier, M.G., E. Oh, H.S. Tims, and J. Widom. 2009. Dynamics and function of compact nucleosome arrays. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 16:938–944.

Nucleosomes: The Basic Units of DNA Condensation

Kornberg, R.D., and Y. Lorch. 1999. Twenty-five years of the nucleosome, fundamental particle of the eukaryote chromosome. Cell 98:285–294.

Richmond, T.J., and C.A. Davey. 2003. The structure of DNA in the nucleosome core. Nature 423:145–150.

Schalch, T., S. Duda, D.F. Sargent, and T.J. Richmond. 2005. X-ray structure of a tetranucleosome and its implications for the chromatin fibre. Nature 436:138–141.

Higher-Order Chromosome Structure

Cui, Y., and C. Bustamante. 2000. Pulling a single chromatin fiber reveals the forces that maintain its higher-order structure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97:127–132.

Li, G., and D. Reinberg. 2011. Chromatin higher-order structures and gene regulation. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 21:175–186.

Pepenella, S., K.J. Murphy, and J.J. Hayes. 2014. Intra- and inter-nucleosome interactions of the core histone tail domains in higher-order chromatin structure. Chromosoma 123:3–13.

Robinson, P.J.J., and D. Rhodes. 2006. Structure of the “30 nm” chromatin fibre: A key role for the linker histone. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 16:336–343.

Schalch, T., S. Duda, D.F. Sargent, and T.J. Richmond. 2005. X-ray structure of a tetranucleosome and its implications for the chromatin fibre. Nature 436:138–141.

The Regulation of Chromosome Structure

Couture, J.F., and R.C. Trievel. 2006. Histone-modifying enzymes: Encrypting and enigmatic epigenetic code. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 16:753–760.

Ducasse, M., and M.A. Brown. 2006. Epigenetic aberrations and cancer. Mol. Cancer 5:60.

Fischle, W., Y. Wang, and C.D. Allis. 2003. Histone and chromatin cross-talk. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 15:172–183.

Formosa, T. 2013. The role of FACT in making and breaking nucleosomes. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1819:247–255.

Leschziner, A.E., A. Saha, J. Wittmeyer, Y. Zhang, C. Bustamante, B.R. Cairns, and E. Nogales. 2007. Conformational flexibility in the chromatin remodeler RSC observed by electron microscopy and the orthogonal tilt reconstruction method. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104:4913–4918.

Lorch, Y., B. Maier-Davis, and R.D. Kornberg. 2010. Mechanism of chromatin remodeling. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107:3458–3462.

Sarma, K., and D. Reinberg. 2005. Histone variants meet their match. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 6:139–149.