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ArticleNature communications2025

Mapping the nuclear landscape with multiplexed super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

Fariha Rahman, Victoria Augoustides, Emma Tyler, Timothy A Daugird, Christian Arthur, Wesley R Legant

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A custom two-in-one HIST and line-scanning confocal excitation module.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. Resolving Sub-Nuclear Architecture from Compartments to Functional Domains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Fariha RahmanLampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8014-3025
Victoria AugoustidesDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Emma TylerLampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Timothy A DaugirdDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Christian ArthurLampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-4313-8122
Wesley R LegantLampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. legantw@email.unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1827-5371

Funding

Connecting the dots between single molecule dynamics and cell differentiationDP2GM136653 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LEGANT, WESLEY R. · 2019 to 2019
$2.3M
Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Training GrantT32GM148376 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Matthew R Redinbo, Qi Zhang · 2024 to 2026
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM136653NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM148376U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1DP2GM136653
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nucleus coordinates many different processes. Visualizing how these are spatially organized requires imaging protein complexes, epigenetic marks, and DNA across scales from single molecules to the whole nucleus. To accomplish this, we develop a multiplexed imaging protocol to localize 13 different nuclear targets with nanometer precision. Within single cells, we show that nuclear specification into active and repressive states exists along a spectrum of length scales, emerging below one micron and becoming strengthened at the nanoscale with unique organizational principles in both heterochromatin and euchromatin. HP1α was positively correlated with DNA at the microscale but uncorrelated at the nanoscale. RNA Polymerase II, p300, and CDK9 were positively correlated at the microscale but became partitioned below 300 nm. Perturbing histone acetylation or transcription disrupted nanoscale organization but had less effect at the microscale. We envision that our imaging and analysis pipeline will be useful to reveal the organizational principles not only of the cell nucleus but also other cellular compartments.

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Cell NucleusMicroscopy, FluorescenceCell LineChromatinDatasets as TopicHumansNuclear ProteinsTranscription, GeneticChromatinNuclear Proteins

Identifiers

PMID40593784
PMCPMC12215941

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