www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/ Oncotarget, 2017, Vol. 8, (No. 55), pp: 95005-95022 Review Regulation of DNA replication-coupled histone gene expression Qianyun Mei1,*, Junhua Huang1,*, Wanping Chen1,2, Jie Tang1, Chen Xu1, Qi Yu1, Ying Cheng1, Lixin Ma1,2, Xilan Yu1,2 and Shanshan Li1,2 1Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Transformation of Bio-Resources, Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei 430062, China 2Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei 430062, China *These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Xilan Yu, email:
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[email protected] Keywords: DNA replication, histone gene transcription, cell cycle Received: August 08, 2017 Accepted: September 20, 2017 Published: October 16, 2017 Copyright: Mei et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT The expression of core histone genes is cell cycle regulated. Large amounts of histones are required to restore duplicated chromatin during S phase when DNA replication occurs. Over-expression and excess accumulation of histones outside S phase are toxic to cells and therefore cells need to restrict histone expression to S phase. Misregulation of histone gene expression leads to defects in cell cycle progression, genome stability, DNA damage response and transcriptional regulation. Here, we discussed the factors involved in histone gene regulation as well as the underlying mechanism.