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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2012

Metazoan promoters: emerging characteristics and insights into transcriptional regulation.

Boris Lenhard, Albin Sandelin, Piero Carninci

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 296 papers.

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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

296 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Boris LenhardInstitute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK. b.lenhard@imperial.ac.uk
Albin Sandelin
Piero Carninci

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UP_1102/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Promoters are crucial for gene regulation. They vary greatly in terms of associated regulatory elements, sequence motifs, the choice of transcription start sites and other features. Several technologies that harness next-generation sequencing have enabled recent advances in identifying promoters and their features, helping researchers who are investigating functional categories of promoters and their modes of regulation. Additional features of promoters that are being characterized include types of histone modifications, nucleosome positioning, RNA polymerase pausing and novel small RNAs. In this Review, we discuss recent findings relating to metazoan promoters and how these findings are leading to a revised picture of what a gene promoter is and how it works.

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Gene Expression RegulationPromoter Regions, Genetic3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsChromatinChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyDrosophila melanogasterEpigenesis, GeneticMammalsNucleosomesRetroelementsRNA Polymerase IITranscription, Genetic3' Untranslated RegionsChromatinNucleosomesRetroelementsRNA Polymerase II

Identifiers

PMID22392219

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