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ReviewACS nano2021

Genome-in-a-Box: Building a Chromosome from the Bottom Up.

Anthony Birnie, Cees Dekker

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Review in ACS nano, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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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

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Physical models of bacterial chromosomes.Molecular microbiology · 2025
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  11. Replicating Chromosomes in Whole-Cell Models of Bacteria.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  13. Dynamics of chromosome organization in a minimal bacterial cell.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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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

2 authors.

Anthony BirnieDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7109-9541
Cees DekkerDepartment of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6273-071X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromosome structure and dynamics are essential for life, as the way that our genomes are spatially organized within cells is crucial for gene expression, differentiation, and genome transfer to daughter cells. There is a wide variety of methods available to study chromosomes, ranging from live-cell studies to single-molecule biophysics, which we briefly review. While these technologies have yielded a wealth of data, such studies still leave a significant gap between top-down experiments on live cells and bottom-up

Indexed as

Artificial CellsChromosomesDNADNA-Binding ProteinsDNADNA-Binding Proteinsbottom-up biologychromosome organizationDNADNA-binding proteinsDNA loop extrusionemergent dynamicsminimal genomephase separationsynthetic cells

Identifiers

PMID33347266
PMCPMC7844827

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