Jun‐ichi Nakayama

Chromatin landscape of budding yeast acquiring H3K9 methylation and its reader molecule HP1

This study introduces H3K9 methylation and HP1 into budding yeast to examine their role in heterochromatin formation, finding they do not significantly alter chromatin structure or transcription.

The mechanism of homologous chromosome recognition and pairing facilitated by chromosome-tethered protein-RNA condensates

This study investigates how RNA-protein condensates facilitate homologous chromosome pairing in meiosis by analyzing phase separation properties of sme2 RNA-associated proteins.

Structural basis for histone variant H3tK27me3 recognition by PHF1 and PHF19

This study shows PHF1 and PHF19 Tudor domains preferentially bind H3tK27me3 over canonical H3K27me3, revealing structural basis for their recognition.

Proteomic analysis of RNA-dependent chromatin association of nuclear proteins

The paper introduces a proteomics-based method to identify RBPs associated with chromatin via RNA, finding 156 proteins including 144 RBPs and revealing RNA-dependent interactions with NHEJ factors and metabolic enzymes.