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ArticleCell2013

The NeST long ncRNA controls microbial susceptibility and epigenetic activation of the interferon-γ locus.

J Antonio Gomez, Orly L Wapinski, Yul W Yang, Jean-François Bureau, Smita Gopinath, Denise M Monack, Howard Y Chang, Michel Brahic, Karla Kirkegaard

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Article in Cell, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 429 papers.

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429citing papers in PubMed
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429 citing papers in PubMed, 625 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

J Antonio GomezDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Orly L Wapinski
Yul W Yang
Jean-François Bureau
Smita Gopinath
Denise M Monack
Howard Y Chang
Michel Brahic
Karla Kirkegaard
Stanford University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USInstitut Pasteur · FR

Funding

Leveraging innovative technologies in basic and clinical cancer researchT32CA009302 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LAURA D ATTARDI, Aaron M Newman · 1985 to 2026
$19.1M
MOLECULAR BASIS OF HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONT32AI007328 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI JUSTIN L SONNENBURG · 1987 to 2026
$11.9M
Structural Motifs in RNAR01HG004361 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, HOWARD Y · 2007 to 2018
$4.7M
NIH Director's Pioneer AwardDP1OD000827 · OD · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KIRKEGAARD, KARLA · 2006 to 2010
$3.9M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS T32 CA009302NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG004361NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007328NIH HHS DP1 OD000827
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are increasingly appreciated as regulators of cell-specific gene expression. Here, an enhancer-like lncRNA termed NeST (nettoie Salmonella pas Theiler's [cleanup Salmonella not Theiler's]) is shown to be causal for all phenotypes conferred by murine viral susceptibility locus Tmevp3. This locus was defined by crosses between SJL/J and B10.S mice and contains several candidate genes, including NeST. The SJL/J-derived locus confers higher lncRNA expression, increased interferon-γ (IFN-γ) abundance in activated CD8(+) T cells, increased Theiler's virus persistence, and decreased Salmonella enterica pathogenesis. Transgenic expression of NeST lncRNA alone was sufficient to confer all phenotypes of the SJL/J locus. NeST RNA was found to bind WDR5, a component of the histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase complex, and to alter histone 3 methylation at the IFN-γ locus. Thus, this lncRNA regulates epigenetic marking of IFN-γ-encoding chromatin, expression of IFN-γ, and susceptibility to a viral and a bacterial pathogen.

Indexed as

Disease SusceptibilityEpigenesis, GeneticAnimalsCardiovirus InfectionsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesInterferon-gammaMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicRNA, Long NoncodingSalmonella InfectionsSalmonella typhimuriumTheilovirusInterferon-gammaRNA, Long Noncoding

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PMID23415224
PMCPMC3577098
OpenAlexW2151010498

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