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Two ways to fold the genome during the cell cycle: insights obtained with chromosome conformation capture

Overview of attention for article published in Epigenetics & Chromatin, November 2014
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Title
Two ways to fold the genome during the cell cycle: insights obtained with chromosome conformation capture
Published in
Epigenetics & Chromatin, November 2014
DOI 10.1186/1756-8935-7-25
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Authors

Job Dekker

Abstract

Genetic and epigenetic inheritance through mitosis is critical for dividing cells to maintain their state. This process occurs in the context of large-scale re-organization of chromosome conformation during prophase leading to the formation of mitotic chromosomes, and during the reformation of the interphase nucleus during telophase and early G1. This review highlights how recent studies over the last 5 years employing chromosome conformation capture combined with classical models of chromosome organization based on decades of microscopic observations, are providing new insights into the three-dimensional organization of chromatin inside the interphase nucleus and within mitotic chromosomes. One striking observation is that interphase genome organization displays cell type-specific features that are related to cell type-specific gene expression, whereas mitotic chromosome folding appears universal and tissue invariant. This raises the question of whether or not there is a need for an epigenetic memory for genome folding. Herein, the two different folding states of mammalian genomes are reviewed and then models are discussed wherein instructions for cell type-specific genome folding are locally encoded in the linear genome and transmitted through mitosis, e.g., as open chromatin sites with or without continuous binding of transcription factors. In the next cell cycle these instructions are used to re-assemble protein complexes on regulatory elements which then drive three-dimensional folding of the genome from the bottom up through local action and self-assembly into higher order levels of cell type-specific organization. In this model, no explicit epigenetic memory for cell type-specific chromosome folding is required.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
United Kingdom 3 1%
France 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Lithuania 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 238 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 73 29%
Researcher 59 24%
Student > Bachelor 29 12%
Student > Master 21 8%
Professor 15 6%
Other 28 11%
Unknown 25 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 115 46%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 72 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 5%
Neuroscience 5 2%
Computer Science 4 2%
Other 18 7%
Unknown 24 10%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 January 2024.
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#3,232,399
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Outputs from Epigenetics & Chromatin
#109
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#43,825
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Outputs of similar age from Epigenetics & Chromatin
#6
of 15 outputs
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