Heterochromatin

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"Heterochromatin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The portion of chromosome material that remains condensed and is transcriptionally inactive during INTERPHASE.

Descriptor ID	D006570
MeSH Number(s)	A11.284.430.106.279.345.190.160.180.383 D12.776.664.224.466 G05.360.160.180.383
Concept/Terms	Heterochromatin Heterochromatin Heterochromatins

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Heterochromatin".

Anatomy [A]
Cells [A11]
Cellular Structures [A11.284]
Intracellular Space [A11.284.430]
Cell Nucleus [A11.284.430.106]
Cell Nucleus Structures [A11.284.430.106.279]
Intranuclear Space [A11.284.430.106.279.345]
Chromosomes [A11.284.430.106.279.345.190]
Chromosome Structures [A11.284.430.106.279.345.190.160]
Chromatin [A11.284.430.106.279.345.190.160.180]
Heterochromatin [A11.284.430.106.279.345.190.160.180.383]
Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
Proteins [D12.776]
Nucleoproteins [D12.776.664]
Chromatin [D12.776.664.224]
Heterochromatin [D12.776.664.224.466]
Biological Sciences [G]
Genetic Phenomena [G05]
Genetic Structures [G05.360]
Chromosome Structures [G05.360.160]
Chromatin [G05.360.160.180]
Heterochromatin [G05.360.160.180.383]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Heterochromatin".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Heterochromatin".

Heterochromatin
Sex Chromatin

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Bar chart showing 46 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2006 and 2009 and 2012 and 2019 and 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1993	0	1	1
1998	0	1	1
2002	1	0	1
2004	2	0	2
2005	1	1	2
2006	2	2	4
2007	1	2	3
2008	0	1	1
2009	3	1	4
2010	1	0	1
2012	2	2	4
2013	1	0	1
2014	3	0	3
2015	2	0	2
2017	1	2	3
2018	3	0	3
2019	2	2	4
2020	2	2	4
2021	1	1	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Heterochromatin" by people in Profiles.

Ferguson CJ, Urso O, Bodrug T, Gassaway BM, Watson ER, Prabu JR, Lara-Gonzalez P, Martinez-Chacin RC, Wu DY, Brigatti KW, Puffenberger EG, Taylor CM, Haas-Givler B, Jinks RN, Strauss KA, Desai A, Gabel HW, Gygi SP, Schulman BA, Brown NG, Bonni A. APC7 mediates ubiquitin signaling in constitutive heterochromatin in the developing mammalian brain. Mol Cell. 2022 01 06; 82(1):90-105.e13.

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Kim H, Ding YH, Zhang G, Yan YH, Conte D, Dong MQ, Mello CC. HDAC1 SUMOylation promotes Argonaute-directed transcriptional silencing in C. elegans. Elife. 2021 05 18; 10.

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Feng Y, Wang Y, Wang X, He X, Yang C, Naseri A, Pederson T, Zheng J, Zhang S, Xiao X, Xie W, Ma H. Simultaneous epigenetic perturbation and genome imaging reveal distinct roles of H3K9me3 in chromatin architecture and transcription. Genome Biol. 2020 12 08; 21(1):296.

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Bizhanova A, Kaufman PD. Close to the edge: Heterochromatin at the nucleolar and nuclear peripheries. Biochim Biophys Acta Gene Regul Mech. 2021 01; 1864(1):194666.

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Fitz-James MH, Tong P, Pidoux AL, Ozadam H, Yang L, White SA, Dekker J, Allshire RC. Large domains of heterochromatin direct the formation of short mitotic chromosome loops. Elife. 2020 09 11; 9.

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Bizhanova A, Yan A, Yu J, Zhu LJ, Kaufman PD. Distinct features of nucleolus-associated domains in mouse embryonic stem cells. Chromosoma. 2020 06; 129(2):121-139.

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Vertii A, Ou J, Yu J, Yan A, Pagès H, Liu H, Zhu LJ, Kaufman PD. Two contrasting classes of nucleolus-associated domains in mouse fibroblast heterochromatin. Genome Res. 2019 08; 29(8):1235-1249.

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Falk M, Feodorova Y, Naumova N, Imakaev M, Lajoie BR, Leonhardt H, Joffe B, Dekker J, Fudenberg G, Solovei I, Mirny LA. Heterochromatin drives compartmentalization of inverted and conventional nuclei. Nature. 2019 06; 570(7761):395-399.

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Hamdani O, Dhillon N, Hsieh TS, Fujita T, Ocampo J, Kirkland JG, Lawrimore J, Kobayashi TJ, Friedman B, Fulton D, Wu KY, Chereji RV, Oki M, Bloom K, Clark DJ, Rando OJ, Kamakaka RT. tRNA Genes Affect Chromosome Structure and Function via Local Effects. Mol Cell Biol. 2019 04 15; 39(8).

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Ozata DM, Gainetdinov I, Zoch A, O'Carroll D, Zamore PD. PIWI-interacting RNAs: small RNAs with big functions. Nat Rev Genet. 2019 02; 20(2):89-108.

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