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ReviewChromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology2006

Gene regulation and large-scale chromatin organization in the nucleus.

Niall Dillon

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Review in Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Methylation as a critical epigenetic process during tumor progressions among Iranian population: an overview.Genes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society · 2021
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  6. Epigenetic Alterations in Bladder Cancer.Current urology reports · 2018
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  16. Epigenetic regulation of promiscuous gene expression in thymic medullary epithelial cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2010
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  18. Gene positioning.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2010
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  20. Novel repression of Kcc2 transcription by REST-RE-1 controls developmental switch in neuronal chloride.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2009
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Niall DillonGene Regulation and Chromatin Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 ONN, UK. niall.dillon@csc.mrc.ac.uk

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U120036884
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulation of gene expression involves a number of different levels of organization in the cell nucleus. The main agents of transcriptional control are the cis-acting sequences in the immediate vicinity of a gene, which combine to form the functional unit or domain. Contacts between these sequences through the formation of chromatin loops forms the most basic level of organization. The activity of functional domains is also influenced by higher order chromatin structures that impede or permit access of factors to the genes. Epigenetic modifications can maintain and propagate these active or repressive chromatin structures across large genomic regions or even entire chromosomes. There is also evidence that transcription is organized into structures called 'factories' and that this can lead to inter-chromosomal contacts between genes that have the potential to influence their regulation.

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Gene Expression RegulationAnimalsCell NucleusChromatinChromosomesEpigenesis, GeneticHumansPromoter Regions, GeneticTranscription FactorsChromatinTranscription Factors

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