REGENT OR SOURCE	SOURCE	IDENTIFIER
Chemicals, peptides, and recombinant proteins
PEI	PolyScience	Cat#23966
Polybrene	Sigma	Cat#H9265
Gelatin	Sigma	Cat#ES-006-B
Opti-MEM	Gibco	Cat#31985-023
DMEM	HyClone	Cat#SH30022-2B
FBS	Gibco	Cat#NTC-HK008
NEAA	Gibco	Cat#11140-050
GlutaMAX	Gibco	Cat#35050-061
Penicillin/Streptomycin	HyClone	Cat#SV30010
Confocal dish	WPI	Cat#FD35-100
Precoated confocal dish	WPI	Cat#FD35PDL-100
0.45 μm Sterile filter	Millipore	Cat#SLHVR33RB
Recombinant DNA
pMXs-H1-GFP	This study	N/A
pMXs-HP1α -Cherry	This study	N/A
Experimental models: Cell lines
MEF cells	This study	N/A
Human fibroblast	This study	N/A
Platinum-E (plat-E)	A gift from the Fourth Military Medical University	N/A
Software and algorithms
Zeiss Zen2	Zeiss	Zeiss, commercially available
Fiji ImageJ	Schneider et al., 2012	https://imagej.net/Fiji/Downloads
Multi measure plugin	N/A	https://www.optinav.info/Multi-Measure.htm
StackReg plugin	Thevenaz et al., 1998	http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/stackreg/
TurboReg plugin	Thevenaz et al., 1998	http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/turboreg/
GraphPad Prism 5.0	GraphPad Software Inc.	https://www.graphpad.com/scientific-software/prism/
Microsoft Excel	Microsoft	Microsoft
Other
LSM880 confocal microscope with incubator system.	Zeiss	Zeiss, commercially available