BiophysicsbioRxivPreprint
Modified histone peptides uniquely tune the material properties of HP1α condensates.
Priyasha Deshpande, Emily Prentice, Alfredo Vidal Ceballos…·Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle
This paper shows that H3K9me3 histone peptides modulate the viscoelastic properties of HP1α-DNA condensates in a concentration-dependent manner, linking epigenetic marks to the dynamic behavior of heterochromatin.
DOI 10.1101/2024.02.07.579285