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When histones are under glucose starvation

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Under nutritional stress, cells undergo metabolic rewiring that results in changes of various cellular processes that include gene transcription. This transcriptional regulation requires dynamic chromatin remodeling that involves histone post-translational modifications. There are several histone marks that may act as switches upon starvation for stress-response pathways.

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  1. Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, 64110, USA

    Jaehyoun Lee, Seunghee Oh, Susan M Abmayr & Jerry L Workman

  2. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA

    Susan M Abmayr

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This article is part of the Topical Collection: Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics.

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Lee, J., Oh, S., Abmayr, S.M. et al. When histones are under glucose starvation. J Biosci 45, 17 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-019-9971-6

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