ArticleNature2008
Cell cycle control of centromeric repeat transcription and heterochromatin assembly.
Article in Nature, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 235 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
235 citing papers in PubMed, 363 citations in OpenAlex.
- Newly synthesized histones: passive or active players in the regulation of epigenetic inheritance?Nucleic acids research · 2026Review
- Hat1 Orchestrates Heterochromatin Inheritance by Regulating Localization of H3K9 Methyltransferases.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Transcriptional PBR cycles at pericentromeric repeats cause gross chromosomal rearrangements through Rad52-dependent ADR-loop formation.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Genomic and epigenomic maps of mouse centromeres and pericentromeres.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Emerging role of SETD2 in the development and function of immune cells.Genes & diseases · 2025Review
- Fungi as models of centromere innovation: from DNA sequence to 3-dimensional arrangement.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2025Review
- PhpCNature communications · 2025Article
- Mathematical model of RNA-directed DNA methylation predicts tuning of negative feedback required for stable maintenance.Open biology · 2024Article
- Clr4Nature communications · 2024Article
- Article
- ISWI chromatin remodeling complexes recruit NSD2 and H3K36me2 in pericentromeric heterochromatin.The Journal of cell biology · 2024Article
- Heterochromatin repeat organization at an individual level: Rex1BD and the 14-3-3 protein coordinate to shape the epigenetic landscape within heterochromatin repeats.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2024Review
- RNA quality control factors nucleate Clr4/SUV39H and trigger constitutive heterochromatin assembly.Cell · 2024Article
- Morc1 reestablishes H3K9me3 heterochromatin on piRNA-targeted transposons in gonocytes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- A SUMO E3 ligase promotes long non-coding RNA transcription to regulate small RNA-directed DNA elimination.eLife · 2024Article
- Rex1BD and the 14-3-3 protein control heterochromatin organization at tandem repeats by linking RNAi and HDAC.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Spt5 C-terminal repeat domain phosphorylation and length negatively regulate heterochromatin through distinct mechanisms.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- A Normalization Protocol Reduces Edge Effect in High-Throughput Analyses of Hydroxyurea Hypersensitivity in Fission Yeast.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- A dual, catalytic role for the fission yeast Ccr4-Not complex in gene silencing and heterochromatin spreading.Genetics · 2023Article
- WD Repeat and HMG Box DNA Binding Protein 1: An Oncoprotein at the Hub of Tumorigenesis and a Novel Therapeutic Target.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
175 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Heterochromatin in eukaryotic genomes regulates diverse chromosomal processes including transcriptional silencing. However, in Schizosaccharomyces pombe RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription of centromeric repeats is essential for RNA-interference-mediated heterochromatin assembly. Here we study heterochromatin dynamics during the cell cycle and its effect on RNAPII transcription. We describe a brief period during the S phase of the cell cycle in which RNAPII preferentially transcribes centromeric repeats. This period is enforced by heterochromatin, which restricts RNAPII accessibility at centromeric repeats for most of the cell cycle. RNAPII transcription during S phase is linked to loading of RNA interference and heterochromatin factors such as the Ago1 subunit of the RITS complex and the Clr4 methyltransferase complex subunit Rik1 (ref. 7). Moreover, Set2, an RNAPII-associated methyltransferase that methylates histone H3 lysine 36 at repeat loci during S phase, acts in a pathway parallel to Clr4 to promote heterochromatin assembly. We also show that phosphorylation of histone H3 serine 10 alters heterochromatin during mitosis, correlating with recruitment of condensin that affects silencing of centromeric repeats. Our analyses suggest at least two distinct modes of heterochromatin targeting to centromeric repeats, whereby RNAPII transcription of repeats and chromodomain proteins bound to methylated histone H3 lysine 9 mediate recruitment of silencing factors. Together, these processes probably facilitate heterochromatin maintenance through successive cell divisions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.