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ReviewCell2011

Impulse control: temporal dynamics in gene transcription.

Nir Yosef, Aviv Regev

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Review in Cell, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 144 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
144citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.6field-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

144 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 289 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Systematic comparison of temporal hepatotoxicant-induced gene network responses across 3 liver test systems.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
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  11. Dynamic Transcription Machineries in Protocells.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  16. Integrating Time-ResolvedEnvironmental science & technology · 2024
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  20. BRCA1 and ELK-1 regulate neural progenitor cell fate in the optic tectum in response to visual experience inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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84 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nir YosefBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Aviv Regev
Broad Institute · USHarvard University · US

Funding

The temporal reconfiguration of regulatory networks: From yeast to cancerDP1OD003958 · OD · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI REGEV, AVIV · 2008 to 2011
$3.3M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIH HHS DP1 OD003958
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory circuits controlling gene expression constantly rewire to adapt to environmental stimuli, differentiation cues, and disease. We review our current understanding of the temporal dynamics of gene expression in eukaryotes and prokaryotes and the molecular mechanisms that shape them. We delineate several prototypical temporal patterns, including "impulse" (or single-pulse) patterns in response to transient environmental stimuli, sustained (or state-transitioning) patterns in response to developmental cues, and oscillating patterns. We focus on impulse responses and their higher-order temporal organization in regulons and cascades and describe how core protein circuits and cis-regulatory sequences in promoters integrate with chromatin architecture to generate these responses.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationTranscription, GeneticAnimalsChromatinHumansRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidRegulonTranscription FactorsChromatinTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID21414481
PMCPMC3148525
OpenAlexW2171419763

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Registered trials

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