Nature Communications (May 2022)

Modulating gene regulation function by chemically controlled transcription factor clustering

  • Jiegen Wu,
  • Baoqiang Chen,
  • Yadi Liu,
  • Liang Ma,
  • Wen Huang,
  • Yihan Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30397-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Transcription factor (TF) condensates appear to be pervasive, yet their roles remain debated. Here, the authors use a synthetic biology approach to show that TF clusters causally amplify transcription and can confer bimodality and “memory”.