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ArticleNature methods2015

Combining protein and mRNA quantification to decipher transcriptional regulation.

Heng Xu, Leonardo A Sepúlveda, Lauren Figard, Anna Marie Sokac, Ido Golding

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Article in Nature methods, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

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72citing papers in PubMed
7.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

72 citing papers in PubMed, 145 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Heng Xu1] Verna &Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. [2] Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA. [3] Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.
Leonardo A Sepúlveda1] Verna &Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. [2] Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.
Lauren FigardIntegrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Anna Marie SokacVerna &Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Ido Golding1] Verna &Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. [2] Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA. [3] Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000000243084959
Baylor College of Medicine · USUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

GENE REGULATION IN PHAGE LAMBDA: A REAL-TIME STUDY WITH SINGLE-EVENT RESOLUTIONR01GM082837 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI GOLDING, IDO · 2008 to 2020
$4.0M
Beyond cell shape: Actin exerts systems-level control during morphogenesisR01GM115111 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI SOKAC, ANNA · 2015 to 2019
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM082837NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115111
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We combine immunofluorescence and single-molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization (smFISH), followed by automated image analysis, to quantify the concentration of nuclear transcription factors, number of transcription factors bound, and number of nascent mRNAs synthesized at individual gene loci. A theoretical model is used to decipher how transcription factor binding modulates the stochastic kinetics of mRNA production. We demonstrate this approach by examining the regulation of hunchback in the early Drosophila embryo.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalTranscription, GeneticAlpha-AmanitinAnimalsCell NucleusCrosses, GeneticDNADrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsImage Processing, Computer-AssistedIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, FluorescenceModels, TheoreticalNormal DistributionPattern Recognition, AutomatedAlpha-AmanitinDNADrosophila ProteinsProteinsRNA, MessengerTranscription Factors

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PMID26098021
PMCPMC4521975
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