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ArticleScience advances2025

Transcription factor clusters as information transfer agents.

Rahul Munshi, Jia Ling, Sergey Ryabichko, Eric F Wieschaus, Thomas Gregor

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Enhancer regulation in cancer: from epigenetics to mArchives of pharmacal research · 2025
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  9. Bridging spatial and temporal scales of developmental gene regulation.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rahul MunshiJoseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8900-2816
Jia LingLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Sergey RyabichkoLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1309-9436
Eric F WieschausLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Thomas GregorJoseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9460-139X

Funding

The Biophysical and Molecular Mechanisms of Reliability in DevelopmentR01GM097275 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI GREGOR, THOMAS · 2011 to 2024
$4.9M
Control of the 4D chromatin landscape underlying gene activity during developmentU01DK127429 · NIDDK · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI GREGOR, THOMAS, LEVINE, MICHAEL STEVEN · 2020 to 2024
$3.2M
Imaging chromosome dynamics and measuring its impact on transcriptional activityU01DA047730 · NIDA · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI GREGOR, THOMAS, LEVINE, MICHAEL STEVEN · 2018 to 2019
$740k
NIDA NIH HHS U01 DA047730NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK127429NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM097275
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deciphering how genes interpret information from transcription factor (TF) concentrations within the cell nucleus remains a fundamental question in gene regulation. Recent advancements have revealed the heterogeneous distribution of TF molecules, posing challenges to precisely decoding concentration signals. Using high-resolution single-cell imaging of the fluorescently tagged TF Bicoid in living

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Drosophila ProteinsTranscription FactorsAnimalsCell NucleusDrosophilaDrosophila melanogasterEmbryo, NonmammalianEnhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHomeodomain ProteinsTrans-Activatorsbcd protein, DrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsHomeodomain ProteinsTrans-ActivatorsTranscription Factors

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PMID39742495
PMCPMC11691696

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