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ArticleNano reviews2010

Bio-molecular architects: a scaffold provided by the C-terminal domain of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II.

Mengmeng Zhang, Gordon N Gill, Yan Zhang

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Article in Nano reviews, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mengmeng ZhangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Gordon N Gill
Yan Zhang
The University of Texas at Austin · USUniversity of California, San Diego · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In eukaryotic cells, the transcription of genes is accurately orchestrated both spatially and temporally by the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II (CTD). The CTD provides a dynamic platform to recruit different regulators of the transcription apparatus. Different posttranslational modifications are precisely applied to specific sites of the CTD to coordinate transcription process. Regulators of the RNA polymerase II must identify specific sites in the CTD for cellular survival, metabolism, and development. Even though the CTD is disordered in the eukaryotic RNA polymerase II crystal structures due to its intrinsic flexibility, recent advances in the complex structural analysis of the CTD with its binding partners provide essential clues for understanding how selectivity is achieved for individual site recognition. The recent discoveries of the interactions between the CTD and histone modification enzymes disclose an important role of the CTD in epigenetic control of the eukaryotic gene expression. The intersection of the CTD code with the histone code discloses an intriguing yet complicated network for eukaryotic transcriptional regulation.

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CID domainCTD codeC-terminal domainepigenetic regulationFF domainhistone codephosphorylationRNA polymerase IISRI domaintranscription regulationWW domain

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PMID22110856
PMCPMC3215212
OpenAlexW2008170886

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