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ArticleiScience2022

A simulation model of heterochromatin formation at submolecular detail.

Michael R Williams, Yan Xiaokang, Nathaniel A Hathaway, Dmitri Kireev

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Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 45% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Two-way feedback between chromatin compaction and histone modification state explainsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  2. HP1-driven phase separation recapitulates the thermodynamics and kinetics of heterochromatin condensate formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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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.

Michael R WilliamsCenter for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27513, USA.
Yan XiaokangCenter for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27513, USA.
Nathaniel A HathawayCenter for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27513, USA.
Dmitri KireevCenter for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27513, USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of Missouri · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heterochromatin is a physical state of the chromatin fiber that maintains gene repression during cell development. Although evidence exists on molecular mechanisms involved in heterochromatin formation, a detailed structural mechanism of heterochromatin formation needs a better understanding. We made use of a simple Monte Carlo simulation model with explicit representation of key molecular events to observe molecular self-organization leading to heterochromatin formation. Our simulations provide a structural interpretation of several important traits of the heterochromatinization process. In particular, this study provides a depiction of how small amounts of HP1 are able to induce a highly condensed chromatin state through HP1 dimerization and bridging of sequence-remote nucleosomes. It also elucidates structural roots of a yet poorly understood phenomenon of a nondeterministic nature of heterochromatin formation and subsequent gene repression. Experimental chromatin

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Cell biologyComputational molecular modeling

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PMID35800764
PMCPMC9254115
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