Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21393997›Full record

ReviewEpigenetics2011

RNA templating the epigenome: long noncoding RNAs as molecular scaffolds.

Robert C Spitale, Miao-Chih Tsai, Howard Y Chang

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Epigenetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
110citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

110 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 187 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Extracellular vesicles and epigenetic aging clocks in tissue aging: an exosome-focused conceptual framework with a focus on skin.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Biological Insights and Recent Advances in Plant Long Non-Coding RNA.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Review
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Review
  13. Article
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Review
  17. A long noncoding RNA influences the choice of the X chromosome to be inactivated.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
    Article
  18. Circular RNAs in cardiovascular diseases.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2022
    Review
  19. Review
  20. Review

50 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert C SpitaleHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Program in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Miao-Chih Tsai
Howard Y Chang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Postgraduate Training Program in Epithelial BiologyT32AR007422 · NIAMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI PAUL KHAVARI · 1986 to 2026
$5.0M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIAMS NIH HHS T32 AR-007422NIAMS NIH HHS T32 AR007422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellular pathways must be synergized, controlled and organized to manage homeostasis. To achieve high selectivity within the crowded cellular milieu the cell utilizes scaffolding complexes whose role is to bring molecules in proximity thereby controlling and enhancing intermolecular interactions and signaling events. To date, scaffolds have been shown to be composed of proteinaceous units; however, recent evidence has supported the idea that non-coding RNAs may also play a similar role. In this point of view article we discuss recent data on ncRNA scaffolds, with particular focus on ncRNA HOTAIR. Using our current knowledge of signaling networks we discuss the role that RNA may play in writing and regulating histone modifications and the information needed for correct gene expression. Further, we speculate on additional, yet undiscovered roles that ncRNAs may be playing as molecular scaffolds.

Indexed as

ChromatinEpigenomicsGene Expression RegulationHistonesPolycomb-Group ProteinsRepressor ProteinsRNARNA, UntranslatedSignal TransductionChromatinHistonesPolycomb-Group ProteinsRepressor ProteinsRNARNA, Untranslated

Identifiers

PMID21393997
PMCPMC3230545
OpenAlexW2063781471

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.