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ReviewWormBook : the online review of C. elegans biology2013

Transcriptional regulation of gene expression in C. elegans.

Valerie Reinke, Michael Krause, Peter Okkema

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Review in WormBook : the online review of C. elegans biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Valerie ReinkeDepartment of Genetics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. valerie.reinke@yale.edu
Michael Krause
Peter Okkema
Yale University · US

Funding

Developmental Gene Expression In C elegansZIADK036117 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI KRAUSE, MICHAEL · 2014 to 2025
$9.3M
Transcriptional Regulation of MyogenesisZIADK036131 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI KRAUSE, MICHAEL · 2009 to 2013
$1.9M
Function and regulation of T-box factors in C. elegansR01GM082865 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI OKKEMA, PETER G · 2007 to 2010
$1.3M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DK036131NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM082865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein coding gene sequences are converted to mRNA by the highly regulated process of transcription. The precise temporal and spatial control of transcription for many genes is an essential part of development in metazoans. Thus, understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying transcriptional control is essential to understanding cell fate determination during embryogenesis, post-embryonic development, many environmental interactions, and disease-related processes. Studies of transcriptional regulation in C. elegans exploit its genomic simplicity and physical characteristics to define regulatory events with single-cell and minute-time-scale resolution. When combined with the genetics of the system, C. elegans offers a unique and powerful vantage point from which to study how chromatin-associated proteins and their modifications interact with transcription factors and their binding sites to yield precise control of gene expression through transcriptional regulation.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansGenes, HelminthPromoter Regions, GeneticRNA Polymerase IISpecies SpecificityRNA Polymerase II

Identifiers

PMID23801596
PMCPMC3893038
OpenAlexW2123785574

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Registered trials

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