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ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2025

Rethinking chromatin accessibility: from compaction to dynamic interactions.

Tom Fillot, Davide Mazza

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Review in Current opinion in genetics & development, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  4. Enhancing titers of therapeutic lentiviral vectors using PKC agonists.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2025
    Article
  5. The shifting paradigm of chromatin structure: from the 30-nm chromatin fiber to liquid-like organization.Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences · 2025
    Review
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.

Tom FillotUniversità Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milan, Italy.
Davide MazzaUniversità Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milan, Italy; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Experimental Imaging Center, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milan, Italy. Electronic address: mazza.davide@hsr.it.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The genome is traditionally divided into condensed heterochromatin and open euchromatin. However, recent findings challenge this binary classification and the notion that chromatin condensation solely governs the accessibility of transcription factors (TFs) and, consequently, gene expression. Instead, chromatin accessibility is emerging as a factor-specific property that is influenced by multiple determinants. These include the mobility of the chromatin fiber, the capacity of TFs to engage repeatedly with it through multivalent interactions, and the four-dimensional organization of its surrounding diffusible space. Unraveling the molecular and biophysical principles that render a genomic target truly accessible remains a significant challenge, but innovative methods for locally perturbing chromatin, coupled with microscopy techniques that offer single-molecule sensitivity, provide an exciting experimental playground to test new hypotheses.

Indexed as

ChromatinChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyTranscription FactorsAnimalsEuchromatinGene Expression RegulationGenomeHeterochromatinHumansChromatinEuchromatinHeterochromatinTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID39705880
PMCPMC11793080

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