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ReviewSeminars in cell & developmental biology2011

Origins and activity of the Mediator complex.

Ronald C Conaway, Joan Weliky Conaway

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Review in Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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61citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Twenty years of Mediator complex structural studies.Biochemical Society transactions · 2019
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1 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.

Ronald C ConawayStowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 E. 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA. rcc@stowers.org
Joan Weliky Conaway
Stowers Institute for Medical Research · USUniversity Medical Center · US

Funding

BIOCHEMISTRY OF EUKARYOTIC MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESISR37GM041628 · NIGMS · STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH · PI CONAWAY, RONALD C. · 2000 to 2009
$3.8M
BIOCHEMISTRY OF EUKARYOTIC MESSENGER SYNTHESISR01GM041628 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI CONAWAY, JOAN W, CONAWAY, RONALD C. · 1989 to 2013
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM041628NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM041628NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM041628
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Mediator is a large, multisubunit RNA polymerase II transcriptional regulator that was first identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a factor required for responsiveness of Pol II and the general initiation factors to DNA binding transactivators. Since its discovery in yeast, Mediator has been shown to be an integral and highly evolutionarily conserved component of the Pol II transcriptional machinery with critical roles in multiple stages of transcription, from regulation of assembly of the Pol II initiation complex to regulation of Pol II elongation. Here we provide a brief overview of the evolutionary origins of Mediator, its subunit composition, and its remarkably diverse collection of activities in Pol II transcription.

Indexed as

Transcription, GeneticAnimalsEvolution, MolecularGene Expression RegulationHumansMediator ComplexPlant Physiological PhenomenaPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein BiosynthesisRNA Polymerase IISaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsMediator ComplexRNA Polymerase IISaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

Identifiers

PMID21821140
PMCPMC3207015
OpenAlexW2080567213

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