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ReviewChromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology2003

Chromatin folding and gene expression: new tools to reveal the spatial organization of genes.

Karen E Brown

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Review in Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Karen E BrownChromosome Biology Group, Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College (Hammersmith Hospital Campus), Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK. karen.brown@csc.mrc.ac.uk
Hammersmith Hospital · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An important aim in biology is to understand how gene expression is regulated in the context of chromatin. Much progress has been made towards cracking the 'histone code', which describes the composition and organization of chromatin at high resolution. At the lower resolution provided by microscopy, nuclear compartmentalization has been linked to the control of gene expression and silencing. I will review two new techniques able to reveal the three-dimensional organization of individual loci, providing a view of the folding of the chromatin fibre at an intermediate level of resolution. Carter and colleagues and Tolhuis and colleagues have used the new techniques to demonstrate direct physical contact between the locus control region (LCR) and expressed genes in the active murine beta-globin locus. The techniques will allow us to assess the role of locus organization when transcription is directed by distant regulatory elements. The new techniques (and their foreseeable descendants) will permit investigation of many genomic activities involving physical contact between separate regions of any genome. As such, they provide us with a new level of resolution at which to investigate the functional significance of chromatin organization as patterns of gene expression are initiated and modulated during development.

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Gene Expression RegulationGenetic TechniquesAnimalsChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyGlobinsLocus Control RegionMiceGlobins

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PMID12971719
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