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ArticleMolecular and cellular biology2008

Bypassing the requirements for epigenetic modifications in gene transcription by increasing enhancer strength.

George Koutroubas, Menie Merika, Dimitris Thanos

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Article in Molecular and cellular biology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

George KoutroubasInstitute of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Biotechnology, Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Efesiou Street, Athens 11527, Greece.
Menie Merika
Dimitris Thanos
Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our current concept postulates that histone acetylation is required for the recruitment of bromodomain-containing transcription complexes, such as the chromatin-remodeling machine SWI/SNF and the basal transcription factor TFIID. We generated simple NF-kappaB-dependent enhancers of increasing transcriptional strengths and found that the histone acetylation requirements for activation of transcription depended on the strengths of these enhancers. All enhancers function by recruiting SWI/SNF and TFIID to induce nucleosome sliding, a prerequisite for transcriptional activation. However, histone acetylation, although it occurs, is dispensable for TFIID and SWI/SNF recruitment by the strong enhancers, indicating that strong activators can overcome the chromatin barrier by directly recruiting the necessary transcriptional complexes. Weak enhancers depend on histone acetylation for recruitment, and this requirement is independent of a histone acetylation code. Thus, the need for nucleosome modifications is imposed on genes and translated according to the quality and strengths of the activators.

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AcetylationChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneEnhancer Elements, GeneticEpigenesis, GeneticHeLa CellsHistonesHumansNF-kappa BNucleosomesTranscriptional ActivationTranscription FactorsTranscription Factor TFIIDTranscription, GeneticTransfectionChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneHistonesNF-kappa BNucleosomesSWI-SNF-B chromatin-remodeling complexTranscription FactorsTranscription Factor TFIID

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PMID18025106
PMCPMC2223377
OpenAlexW2169887821

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