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ReviewCells2020

Job Opening for Nucleosome Mechanic: Flexibility Required.

Mary Pitman, Daniël P Melters, Yamini Dalal

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In one paragraph

Review in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mary PitmanDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA.
Daniël P MeltersChromatin Structure and Epigenetic Mechanisms, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Yamini DalalChromatin Structure and Epigenetic Mechanisms, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7655-6182
Center for Cancer Research · US

Funding

Kinetochore Interaction with Centromere Chromatin in human cellsZIABC011209 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI DALAL, YAMINI P · 2009 to 2025
$5.5M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nucleus has been studied for well over 100 years, and chromatin has been the intense focus of experiments for decades. In this review, we focus on an understudied aspect of chromatin biology, namely the chromatin fiber polymer's mechanical properties. In recent years, innovative work deploying interdisciplinary approaches including computational modeling, in vitro manipulations of purified and native chromatin have resulted in deep mechanistic insights into how the mechanics of chromatin might contribute to its function. The picture that emerges is one of a nucleus that is shaped as much by external forces pressing down upon it, as internal forces pushing outwards from the chromatin. These properties may have evolved to afford the cell a dynamic and reversible force-induced communication highway which allows rapid coordination between external cues and internal genomic function.

Indexed as

Cell NucleusHumansModels, MolecularNucleosomesNucleosomeschromatindynamicsepigeneticsmechanicsnucleosomes

Identifiers

PMID32121488
PMCPMC7140402
OpenAlexW3009413287

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Registered trials

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