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ArticleCell reports2019

Heat Shock Factor 1 Drives Intergenic Association of Its Target Gene Loci upon Heat Shock.

Surabhi Chowdhary, Amoldeep S Kainth, David Pincus, David S Gross

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Article in Cell reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Surabhi ChowdharyDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA.
Amoldeep S KainthDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA.
David PincusWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
David S GrossDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA. Electronic address: dgross@lsuhsc.edu.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport · USWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research · US

Funding

Quantitative approaches to reveal the homeostatic control mechanisms of stress reDP5OD017941 · OD · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI PINCUS, DAVID · 2013 to 2017
$2.4M
Role of Actin in the Chromosomal Conformation & Nuclear Organization of HSP GenesR15GM128065 · NIGMS · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV HSC SHREVEPORT · PI GROSS, DAVID SAMUEL · 2018 to 2019
$523k
NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM128065NIH HHS DP5 OD017941
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcriptional induction of heat shock protein (HSP) genes is accompanied by dynamic changes in their 3D structure and spatial organization, yet the molecular basis for these phenomena remains unknown. Using chromosome conformation capture and single-cell imaging, we show that genes transcriptionally activated by Hsf1 specifically interact across chromosomes and coalesce into diffraction-limited intranuclear foci. Genes activated by the alternative stress regulators Msn2/Msn4, in contrast, do not interact among themselves nor with Hsf1 targets. Likewise, constitutively expressed genes, even those interposed between HSP genes, show no detectable interaction. Hsf1 forms discrete subnuclear puncta when stress activated, and these puncta dissolve in concert with transcriptional attenuation, paralleling the kinetics of HSP gene coalescence and dissolution. Nuclear Hsf1 and RNA Pol II are both necessary for intergenic HSP gene interactions, while DNA-bound Hsf1 is necessary and sufficient to drive heterologous gene coalescence. Our findings demonstrate that Hsf1 can dynamically restructure the yeast genome.

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Genetic LociHeat-Shock ProteinsHeat-Shock ResponseSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription FactorsHeat-Shock ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription Factors3C3D genomechromosome conformation captureDNA loopingHsf1Msn2/Msn4nuclear organizationphase separationproteostasisstress responsetranscription factoryyeast

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PMID30605674
PMCPMC6435272
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