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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Active and repressed biosynthetic gene clusters have spatially distinct chromosome states.

Hans-Wilhelm Nützmann, Daniel Doerr, América Ramírez-Colmenero, Jesús Emiliano Sotelo-Fonseca, Eva Wegel, Marco Di Stefano, Steven W Wingett, Peter Fraser, Laurence Hurst, Selene L Fernandez-Valverde and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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60 citing papers in PubMed, 113 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Hans-Wilhelm NützmannDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry, The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, BA2 7AY Bath, United Kingdom; h.nuetzmann@bath.ac.uk.
Daniel DoerrFaculty of Technology and Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3720-6227
América Ramírez-ColmeneroUnidad de Genómica Avanzada, Langebio, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36824, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-9664-2993
Jesús Emiliano Sotelo-FonsecaUnidad de Genómica Avanzada, Langebio, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36824, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0003-1600-2396
Eva WegelBioimaging, John Innes Centre, NR4 7UH Norwich, United Kingdom.
Marco Di StefanoCentre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CNAG-CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), 08028 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6195-4754
Steven W WingettBioinformatics, Babraham Institute, CB22 3AT Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2343-0711
Peter FraserDepartment of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306.
Laurence HurstDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry, The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, BA2 7AY Bath, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1002-1054
Selene L Fernandez-ValverdeUnidad de Genómica Avanzada, Langebio, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36824, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-9020-1716
Anne OsbournDepartment of Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, NR4 7UH Norwich, United Kingdom.
Instituto Politécnico Nacional · MXJohn Innes Centre · GBUniversity of Bath · GBBabraham Institute · GBBielefeld University · DECentre for Genomic Regulation · ESFlorida State University · US

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J004480/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L014130/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000PR9790
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While colocalization within a bacterial operon enables coexpression of the constituent genes, the mechanistic logic of clustering of nonhomologous monocistronic genes in eukaryotes is not immediately obvious. Biosynthetic gene clusters that encode pathways for specialized metabolites are an exception to the classical eukaryote rule of random gene location and provide paradigmatic exemplars with which to understand eukaryotic cluster dynamics and regulation. Here, using 3C, Hi-C, and Capture Hi-C (CHi-C) organ-specific chromosome conformation capture techniques along with high-resolution microscopy, we investigate how chromosome topology relates to transcriptional activity of clustered biosynthetic pathway genes in

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Multigene FamilyArabidopsisChromosomes, PlantGenome, PlantOryzaPlant ProteinsSolanum lycopersicumZea maysPlant ProteinsArabidopsis thalianachromosome organizationgene clusterH3K27me3Hi-C

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PMID32493747
PMCPMC7306824
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