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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2010

Chromatin higher-order structure and dynamics.

Christopher L Woodcock, Rajarshi P Ghosh

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 169 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

169 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Multiscale modeling primer: Focus on chromatin and epigenetics.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026
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  2. PARP1 Exhibits an Enzymatically Inactive Chromatin Binding Mode.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  8. Unveiling the invisible genomic dynamics.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2025
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  17. Structure-function analyses revealCurrent research in structural biology · 2024
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  18. Regulation of chromatin organization during animal regeneration.Cell regeneration (London, England) · 2023
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  20. Nuclear architecture and the structural basis of mitotic memory.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2023
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109 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Christopher L WoodcockBiology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA. chris@bio.umass.edu
Rajarshi P Ghosh

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The primary role of the nucleus as an information storage, retrieval, and replication site requires the physical organization and compaction of meters of DNA. Although it has been clear for many years that nucleosomes constitute the first level of chromatin compaction, this contributes a relatively small fraction of the condensation needed to fit the typical genome into an interphase nucleus or set of metaphase chromosomes, indicating that there are additional "higher order" levels of chromatin condensation. Identifying these levels, their interrelationships, and the principles that govern their occurrence has been a challenging and much discussed problem. In this article, we focus on recent experimental advances and the emerging evidence indicating that structural plasticity and chromatin dynamics play dominant roles in genome organization. We also discuss novel approaches likely to yield important insights in the near future, and suggest research areas that merit further study.

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Nucleic Acid ConformationProtein ConformationCell NucleusChromatinComputer SimulationChromatin

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PMID20452954
PMCPMC2857170

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