Chromatin and Disease

PART I: Chromatin Structure, Dynamics and Disease

1. Structural organization of dynamic chromatin in humans
- Kohji Hizume, Shige H. Yoshimura and Kunio Takeyasu

2. Chromatin Remodeling: Action and Reaction
- Parul Choudhary and Patrick Varga-Weisz

3. Regulation of Chromatin Structure and Transcription by Poly (ADP- Ribose) Polymerase I. Possible targets for drug based therapies
- David A. Wacker, Kristine M. Frizzell, and W. Lee Kraus

4. Histone variant nucleosomes: structure, function and implication in disease
- Mathieu Boulard, Philippe Bouvet, Tapas K Kundu and Stefan Dimitrov

5. Histone variants and complexes involved in their exchange
- Thomas Kusch and Jerry L. Workman

6. Histone chaperones in chromatin dynamics: Implication in disease manifestation
- Jayasha Shandilya, Shrikanth Gadad, V.Swaminathan and Tapas K Kundu

7. Function of the histone chaperone Nucleolin in diseases
- Sbastien Storck, Manu Shukla, Philippe Bouvet

8. Chromatin as a target for the DNA binding anti-cancer drugs
- Parijat Majumder, Suman K. Pradhan, Pukhrambam Grihanjali Devi, Sudipta Pal and Dipak Dasgupta

PART II: Nonhistone Proteins, Sites for Epigenetic Marks: link to Disease

9. Reversible acetylation of Non Histone proteins: Role in cellular function and disease
- Kiran Batta, Chandrima Das, Shrikanth Gadad, Jayasha Shandilya and Tapas K. Kundu

10. MARs and MARBPs: Key modulators of gene regulation and disease manifestation
- Samit Chattopadhyay and Lakshminarasimhan Pavithra

PART III : Epigenetic Modifications of Chromatin : Implication in Disease and Therapeutics

11. Aberrant forms of acetyltransferases in human diseases
- Olivier van Beekum and Eric Kalkhoven

12. Chromatin acetylation status in the manifestation of neurodegenerative diseases: HDAC inhibitors as therapeutic tools?
- BOUTILLIER Anne-Laurence, ROUAUX Caroline, PANTELEEVA

13. Function of MYST family Histone acetyltransferases and their link to diseases
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