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ArticleNature genetics2011

Extensive and coordinated transcription of noncoding RNAs within cell-cycle promoters.

Tiffany Hung, Yulei Wang, Michael F Lin, Ashley K Koegel, Yojiro Kotake, Gavin D Grant, Hugo M Horlings, Nilay Shah, Christopher Umbricht, Pei Wang and 12 more

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Article in Nature genetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 687 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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687citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

687 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors at 13 institutions in 5 countries.

Tiffany HungProgram in Epithelial Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
Yulei Wang
Michael F Lin
Ashley K Koegel
Yojiro Kotake
Gavin D Grant
Hugo M Horlings
Nilay Shah
Christopher Umbricht
Pei Wang
Yu Wang
Benjamin Kong
Anita Langerød
Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale
Seung K Kim
Marc van de Vijver
Saraswati Sukumar
Michael L Whitfield
Manolis Kellis
Yue Xiong
David J Wong
Howard Y Chang
Stanford University · USBroad Institute · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USJohns Hopkins University · USAcademic Medical Center · NLDartmouth College · USDartmouth Hospital · GBHamamatsu University · JPJohns Hopkins Medicine · USOslo University Hospital · NOUniversity of Amsterdam · NLUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of Oslo · NO

Funding

Wound Response Genes in Cancer ProgressionR01CA118750 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, HOWARD Y · 2007 to 2016
$2.9M
Multicenter Genetic, Epigenetic & Expression Analysis of DCIS outcome predictorsR01CA140311 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI UMBRICHT, CHRISTOPHER B · 2011 to 2015
$2.6M
Predicting and testing gene function in the human cell division cycleR01CA130795 · NCI · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI WHITFIELD, MICHAEL L · 2007 to 2011
$1.5M
Role of Csn5 in Epidermal HomeostasisK08AR054615 · NIAMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, DAVID J · 2009 to 2009
$119k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS R01 CA118750NCI NIH HHS R01-CA118750NCI NIH HHS R01 CA130795NCI NIH HHS R01-CA130795NCI NIH HHS R01 CA140311NIAMS NIH HHS K08 AR054615NIAMS NIH HHS K08-AR054615
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcription of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) within gene regulatory elements can modulate gene activity in response to external stimuli, but the scope and functions of such activity are not known. Here we use an ultrahigh-density array that tiles the promoters of 56 cell-cycle genes to interrogate 108 samples representing diverse perturbations. We identify 216 transcribed regions that encode putative lncRNAs, many with RT-PCR-validated periodic expression during the cell cycle, show altered expression in human cancers and are regulated in expression by specific oncogenic stimuli, stem cell differentiation or DNA damage. DNA damage induces five lncRNAs from the CDKN1A promoter, and one such lncRNA, named PANDA, is induced in a p53-dependent manner. PANDA interacts with the transcription factor NF-YA to limit expression of pro-apoptotic genes; PANDA depletion markedly sensitized human fibroblasts to apoptosis by doxorubicin. These findings suggest potentially widespread roles for promoter lncRNAs in cell-growth control.

Indexed as

ApoptosisBiomarkersCell CycleCell DifferentiationChromatin ImmunoprecipitationDNA DamageGene Expression ProfilingGenes, cdcHumansImmunoprecipitationMolecular Sequence DataNeoplasmsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPromoter Regions, GeneticReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerBiomarkersRNA, MessengerRNA, Untranslated

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PMID21642992
PMCPMC3652667
OpenAlexW1567701663

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