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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2025

Emerging roles of transcriptional condensates as temporal signal integrators.

Kirstin Meyer, Bo Huang, Orion D Weiner

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Divergent condensates tune transcriptional responses during stress.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kirstin MeyerDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. kirstin.meyer@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2228-2550
Bo HuangDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Orion D WeinerDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1778-6543

Funding

Cellular Decision Making Diversity SupplementR35GM118167 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Orion D Weiner · 2016 to 2026
$10.3M
Modulation and functional characterization of protein condensation in chromatin organizationU01DK127421 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI HUANG, BO, NARLIKAR, GEETA J · 2020 to 2024
$5.4M
Mapping endogenous protein dynamics in living cellsR01GM131641 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Bo Huang · 2019 to 2026
$2.6M
Imaging and manipulating oncoprotein phase separation and compartmentalizationR01CA258327 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI SHU, XIAOKUN · 2021 to 2025
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA258327NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK127421NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM131641NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118167
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcription factors relay information from the external environment to gene regulatory networks that control cell physiology. To confer signalling specificity, robustness and coordination, these signalling networks use temporal communication codes, such as the amplitude, duration or frequency of signals. Although much is known about how temporal information is encoded, a mechanistic understanding of how gene regulatory networks decode signalling dynamics is lacking. Recent advances in our understanding of phase separation of transcriptional condensates provide new biophysical frameworks for both temporal encoding and decoding mechanisms. In this Perspective, we summarize the mechanisms by which transcriptional condensates could enable temporal decoding through signal adaptation, memory and persistence. We further outline methods to probe and manipulate dynamic communication codes of transcription factors and condensates to rationally control gene activation.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksSignal TransductionTranscription FactorsTranscription, GeneticAnimalsGene Expression RegulationHumansTranscription Factors

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PMID40240649
PMCPMC12277013

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