BiophysicsBiophysical JournalPeer-reviewed
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.