 Heterochromatin
"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.
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 |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Heterochromatin".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Heterochromatin".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Heterochromatin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Heterochromatin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2015 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2018 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2025 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Heterochromatin" by people in Profiles.
-
Gaurav N, O'Hara R, Hyder U, Qin W, Her C, Romero H, Kumar A, Marcaida MJ, Singh RK, Hovius R, Selvam K, Liu J, Martire S, Yao Y, Challa A, Dal Peraro M, Fierz B, Kono H, Cardoso MC, Debelouchina GT, Leonhardt H, D'Orso I, Banaszynski LA, Kutateladze TG. The HP1 box of KAP1 organizes HP1a for silencing of endogenous retroviral elements in embryonic stem cells. Nat Commun. 2025 May 31; 16(1):5066.
-
Trouth A, Ravichandran K, Gafken PR, Martire S, Boyle GE, Veronezi GMB, La V, Namciu SJ, Banaszynski LA, Sarthy JF, Ramachandran S. The length of the G1 phase is an essential determinant of H3K27me3 landscapes across diverse cell types. PLoS Biol. 2025 Apr; 23(4):e3003119.
-
Reckard AT, Pandeya A, Voris JM, Gonzalez Cruz CG, Oluwadare O, Klocko AD. A constitutive heterochromatic region shapes genome organization and impacts gene expression in Neurospora crassa. BMC Genomics. 2024 Dec 20; 25(1):1215.
-
Trouth A, Veronezi GMB, Ramachandran S. The impact of cell states on heterochromatin dynamics. Biochem J. 2024 11 06; 481(21):1519-1533.
-
Williams JF, Surovtsev IV, Schreiner SM, Chen Z, Raiymbek G, Nguyen H, Hu Y, Biteen JS, Mochrie SGJ, Ragunathan K, King MC. The condensation of HP1a/Swi6 imparts nuclear stiffness. Cell Rep. 2024 07 23; 43(7):114373.
-
Scadden AW, Graybill AS, Hull-Crew C, Lundberg TJ, Lande NM, Klocko AD. Histone deacetylation and cytosine methylation compartmentalize heterochromatic regions in the genome organization of Neurospora crassa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 11 21; 120(47):e2311249120.
-
Mei Y, Feng X, Jin Y, Kang R, Wang X, Zhao D, Ghosh S, Neu CP, Avril S. Cell nucleus elastography with the adjoint-based inverse solver. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2023 Dec; 242:107827.
-
Rhie A, Nurk S, Cechova M, Hoyt SJ, Taylor DJ, Altemose N, Hook PW, Koren S, Rautiainen M, Alexandrov IA, Allen J, Asri M, Bzikadze AV, Chen NC, Chin CS, Diekhans M, Flicek P, Formenti G, Fungtammasan A, Garcia Giron C, Garrison E, Gershman A, Gerton JL, Grady PGS, Guarracino A, Haggerty L, Halabian R, Hansen NF, Harris R, Hartley GA, Harvey WT, Haukness M, Heinz J, Hourlier T, Hubley RM, Hunt SE, Hwang S, Jain M, Kesharwani RK, Lewis AP, Li H, Logsdon GA, Lucas JK, Makalowski W, Markovic C, Martin FJ, Mc Cartney AM, McCoy RC, McDaniel J, McNulty BM, Medvedev P, Mikheenko A, Munson KM, Murphy TD, Olsen HE, Olson ND, Paulin LF, Porubsky D, Potapova T, Ryabov F, Salzberg SL, Sauria MEG, Sedlazeck FJ, Shafin K, Shepelev VA, Shumate A, Storer JM, Surapaneni L, Taravella Oill AM, Thibaud-Nissen F, Timp W, Tomaszkiewicz M, Vollger MR, Walenz BP, Watwood AC, Weissensteiner MH, Wenger AM, Wilson MA, Zarate S, Zhu Y, Zook JM, Eichler EE, O'Neill RJ, Schatz MC, Miga KH, Makova KD, Phillippy AM. The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome. Nature. 2023 09; 621(7978):344-354.
-
Sureka R, Avvaru AK, Sowpati DT, Pathak RU, Mishra RK. Structural and developmental dynamics of Matrix associated regions in Drosophila melanogaster genome. BMC Genomics. 2022 Oct 25; 23(1):725.
-
Mendez-Bermudez A, Lototska L, Pousse M, Tessier F, Croce O, Latrick CM, Cherdyntseva V, Nassour J, Xiaohua J, Lu Y, Abbadie C, Gagos S, Ye J, Gilson E. Selective pericentromeric heterochromatin dismantling caused by TP53 activation during senescence. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 07 22; 50(13):7493-7510.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|