Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21893173›Full record

ReviewGene2012

RNA polymerase I activity is regulated at multiple steps in the transcription cycle: recent insights into factors that influence transcription elongation.

David Alan Schneider

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In one paragraph

Review in Gene, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A novel homozygous variant in the POLR1A gene: a complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia (c-HSP) or a hypomyelinating leukodystrophy type-27 (HLD27) phenotype?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

David Alan SchneiderDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 720 20th Street South, Kaul Human Genetics, Room 442, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. dschneid@uab.edu
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Control of RNA polymerase I transcription initiation and elongationR01GM084946 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI SCHNEIDER, DAVID ALAN · 2009 to 2020
$3.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM84946NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084946
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthesis of the translation apparatus is a central activity in growing and/or proliferating cells. Because of its fundamental importance and direct connection to cell proliferation, ribosome synthesis has been a focus of ongoing research for several decades. As a consequence, much is known about the essential factors involved in this process. Many studies have shown that transcription of the ribosomal DNA by RNA polymerase I is a major target for cellular regulation of ribosome synthesis rates. The initiation of transcription by RNA polymerase I has been implicated as a regulatory target, however, recent studies suggest that the elongation step in transcription is also influenced and regulated by trans-acting factors. This review describes the factors required for rRNA synthesis and focuses on recent works that have begun to identify and characterize factors that influence transcription elongation by RNA polymerase I and its regulation.

Indexed as

Peptide Chain Elongation, TranslationalTranscription, GeneticAnimalsGene Expression RegulationHumansRibosomesRNA Polymerase IRNA, RibosomalSaccharomyces cerevisiaeTrans-ActivatorsRNA Polymerase IRNA, RibosomalTrans-Activators

Identifiers

PMID21893173
PMCPMC3234310
OpenAlexW2025926531

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