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Chromatin Insulators and Topological Domains: Adding New Dimensions to 3D Genome Architecture.

Navneet K Matharu, Sajad H Ahanger

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Review in Genes, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
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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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Nuclear architecture and the structural basis of mitotic memory.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2023
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  6. Modulating gene regulation to treat genetic disorders.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2020
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  13. Boundaries of loop domains (insulators): Determinants of chromosome form and function in multicellular eukaryotes.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2017
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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

2 authors.

Navneet K MatharuDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. navneet.matharu@ucsf.edu.
Sajad H AhangerDepartment of Ophthalmology, Lab for Retinal Cell Biology, University of Zurich, Wagistrasse 14, Zurich 8952, Switzerland. SajadHamid.Ahanger@usz.ch.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spatial organization of metazoan genomes has a direct influence on fundamental nuclear processes that include transcription, replication, and DNA repair. It is imperative to understand the mechanisms that shape the 3D organization of the eukaryotic genomes. Chromatin insulators have emerged as one of the central components of the genome organization tool-kit across species. Recent advancements in chromatin conformation capture technologies have provided important insights into the architectural role of insulators in genomic structuring. Insulators are involved in 3D genome organization at multiple spatial scales and are important for dynamic reorganization of chromatin structure during reprogramming and differentiation. In this review, we will discuss the classical view and our renewed understanding of insulators as global genome organizers. We will also discuss the plasticity of chromatin structure and its re-organization during pluripotency and differentiation and in situations of cellular stress.

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architectural proteinschromatin architectureinsulatorsTAD boundaries

Identifiers

PMID26340639
PMCPMC4584330

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