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ArticleCell2008

Nucleosome retention and the stochastic nature of promoter chromatin remodeling for transcription.

Hinrich Boeger, Joachim Griesenbeck, Roger D Kornberg

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Article in Cell, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 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

92 citing papers in PubMed.

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  16. Nucleosomal proofreading of activator-promoter interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hinrich BoegerDepartment of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. boeger@biology.ucsc.edu
Joachim Griesenbeck
Roger D Kornberg

Funding

RNA POLYMERASE II TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM FROM YEASTR01GM036659 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KORNBERG, ROGER D · 1986 to 2016
$4.7M
RNA POLYMERASE II TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM FROM YEASTR37GM036659 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KORNBERG, ROGER D · 1998 to 2008
$4.6M
Dynamics and Function of Signal-Induced Nucleosome DisassemblyR01GM078111 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI BOEGER, HANNS HINRICH · 2006 to 2010
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM078111-01NIGMS NIH HHS GM36659NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM036659NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078111NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM036659
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rate-limiting step of transcriptional activation in eukaryotes, and thus the critical point for gene regulation, is unknown. Combining biochemical analyses of the chromatin transition at the transcriptionally induced PHO5 promoter in yeast with modeling based on a small number of simple assumptions, we demonstrate that random removal and reformation of promoter nucleosomes can account for stochastic and kinetic properties of PHO5 expression. Our analysis suggests that the disassembly of promoter nucleosomes is rate limiting for PHO5 expression, and supports a model for the underlying mechanism of promoter chromatin remodeling, which appears to conserve a single nucleosome on the promoter at all times.

Indexed as

Chromatin Assembly and DisassemblyNucleosomesPromoter Regions, GeneticTranscription, GeneticAcid PhosphataseGene Expression Regulation, FungalModels, GeneticSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsAcid PhosphataseNucleosomesPHO5 protein, S cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

Identifiers

PMID18485878
PMCPMC2409070

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