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Meiosis-specific cohesin complexes differing in their kleisin subunit display different chromosome binding dynamics and perform specialised functions in sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome axis organisation, and double-strand break repair.

A novel mechanism of gene regulation is discovered wherein a specific long non-coding RNA abolishes the blocking activity of chromatin insulator in the Drosophila HOX gene cluster.

An unexpected interaction between a long non-coding RNA locus and a genetic insulator called Fub-1 has an important role in gene regulation during development in Drosophila.

The initiation of DNA damage checkpoint recovery involves ATM-mediated E3 ubiquitin ligase E6AP phosphorylation which disrupts E6AP-MASTL association and leads to MASTL protein accumulation and cell cycle resumption.

Genetics and biochemical analyses reveal an evolutionarily conserved mechanism to regulate gene isoform expression by mTORC1 and implicate possible gene isoform imbalance in cancer and neurological disorders with mTORC1 pathway dysregulation.

Cells exhibit a localized ATR-dependent DNA damage response to a site-specific stalled replication fork that is distinct from that observed after global replication stress.

SUMOylated PCNA and the Elg1 PCNA unloader interact with the CST complex to coordinate DNA replication and telomere length maintenance.

Extracellular glucose promotes O-GlcNAcylation of DNMT1 and inhibition of DNMT1 function in the maintenance of genomic methylation.

Nucleosomes inside of baker’s yeast cells largely do not resemble those found in test tubes.

The N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methyltransferase complex in budding yeast is highly conserved, yet reconfigured with respect to its mammalian counterpart and has both m6A-dependent and m6A-independent functions.