Special Edition of Plant Chromatin Biology
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 227
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chromatin; histone post-translational modifications; histone chaperone; genomics; bioinformatics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chromatin is a sophisticated structure found in nuclei. Its basic subunit, the nucleosome, is composed of DNA wrapped around the histone octamer made of a H3/H4 tetramer flanked by two H2A/H2B dimers. A fifth histone called the H1 linker also participates in the chromatin structure. Chromatin enables DNA compaction within the constraint of nuclear space. Besides this role, chromatin carries much of the epigenetic information which modulates genome activity including regulation of gene expression. Indeed, the chromatin structure is highly dynamic and affects all processes operating on DNA such as DNA repair, replication or transcription. Plants are sessile organisms which imposes substantial challenges for chromatin regulation amidst fluctuating environments, biotic stresses, and developmental changes.
The Special Edition “Plant Chromatin Biology” will focus on the molecular players that operate within the chromatin structure and composition and how they can be regulated in response to environmental cues or developmental transitions. With their strong plasticity, plants offer great opportunities to decipher the mechanisms that operate within chromatin and to understand how the chromatin structure and the epigenetic information ensure the fine tuning of the genome expression program in various conditions.
We invite submission of works that investigate these mechanisms by various and combined approaches, such as biochemistry, genetics and omics approaches, as well as review articles that offer a comprehensive view of the current knowledge and its limits or method papers with new techniques to analyze these mechanisms.
Dr. Céline Duc
Prof. Dr. Hank W. Bass
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Plants is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- chromatin
- chromosome
- chromatin structure
- chromatin regulation
- nuclear architecture
- chromosome segregation
- nucleosome
- histones
- centromeres
- telomeres
- epigenetics
- epigenomics
- genomics
