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ArticleScience advances2025

Cell type-specific 3D-genome organization and transcription regulation in the brain.

Shiwei Liu, Cosmos Yuqi Wang, Pu Zheng, Bojing Blair Jia, Nathan R Zemke, Peter Ren, Hannah L Park, Bing Ren, Xiaowei Zhuang

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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 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Shiwei LiuHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Cosmos Yuqi WangHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5793-0127
Pu ZhengHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8047-1472
Bojing Blair JiaBioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, Medical Scientist Training Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2090-2912
Nathan R ZemkeDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Center for Epigenomics, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6326-5925
Peter RenHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5283-3694
Hannah L ParkHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0009-0000-5969-2433
Bing RenDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Center for Epigenomics, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5435-1127
Xiaowei ZhuangHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6034-7853

Funding

Center for Integrated Multi-modal and Multi-scale Nucleome ResearchUM1HG011585 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI DULAC, CATHERINE, LEIN, ED · 2020 to 2024
$6.7M
NHGRI NIH HHS UM1 HG011585
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

3D organization of the genome plays a critical role in regulating gene expression. How 3D-genome organization differs among different cell types and relates to cell type-dependent transcriptional regulation remains unclear. Here, we used genome-scale DNA and RNA imaging to investigate 3D-genome organization in transcriptionally distinct cell types in the mouse cerebral cortex. We uncovered a wide spectrum of differences in the nuclear architecture and 3D-genome organization among different cell types, ranging from the size of the cell nucleus to higher-order chromosome structures and radial positioning of chromatin loci within the nucleus. These cell type-dependent variations in nuclear architecture and chromatin organization exhibit strong correlations with both the total transcriptional activity of the cell and transcriptional regulation of cell type-specific marker genes. Moreover, we found that the methylated DNA binding protein MeCP2 promotes active-inactive chromatin segregation and regulates transcription in a nuclear radial position-dependent manner that is highly correlated with its function in modulating active-inactive chromatin compartmentalization.

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BrainGene Expression RegulationGenomeTranscription, GeneticAnimalsCell NucleusChromatinMethyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2MiceChromatinMecp2 protein, mouseMethyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2

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PMID40009678
PMCPMC11864200

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