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ReviewDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2019

Chromatin topology, condensates and gene regulation: shifting paradigms or just a phase?

Mustafa Mir, Wendy Bickmore, Eileen E M Furlong, Geeta Narlikar

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Review in Development (Cambridge, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
66citing papers in PubMed
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed, 122 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Mustafa MirDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA mmir@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8280-2821
Wendy BickmoreMedical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6660-7735
Eileen E M FurlongEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9544-8339
Geeta NarlikarDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1920-0147
European Bioinformatics Institute · GBInstitute of Genetics and Cancer · GBUniversity of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies on Preparatively Significant ReactionsR35GM127010 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI DENMARK, SCOTT ERIC · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
European Research Council 787611Medical Research Council MC_UU_00007/2NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM127010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the past decade, two major advances in our understanding of nuclear organization have taken the field of gene regulation by storm. First, technologies that can analyze the three-dimensional conformation of chromatin have revealed how the genome is organized and have provided novel insights into how regulatory regions in the genome interact. Second, the recognition that many proteins can form membraneless compartments through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) has challenged long-standing notions of how proteins within the nucleus are organized and has offered a tantalizing general mechanism by which many aspects of nuclear function may be regulated. However, the functional roles of chromatin topology and LLPS in regulating gene expression remain poorly understood. These topics were discussed with great fervor during an open discussion held at a recent workshop titled 'Chromatin-based regulation of development' organized by The Company of Biologists. Here, we summarize the major points covered during this debate and discuss how they tie into current thinking in the field of gene regulation.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalNucleic Acid ConformationAnimalsChromatinEnhancer Elements, GeneticHumansRepressor ProteinsChromatinRepressor ProteinsChromatin topologyCondensatesGene regulationGenome organizationPhase separationTranscription

Identifiers

PMID31554625
PMCPMC6803379
OpenAlexW2974980872

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