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ReviewTrends in genetics : TIG2016

The Determinants of Directionality in Transcriptional Initiation.

Dia N Bagchi, Vishwanath R Iyer

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Review in Trends in genetics : TIG, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 46 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dia N BagchiDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Vishwanath R IyerDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. Electronic address: vishy@utexas.edu.
The University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

Analysis of genome wide transcriptional control in yeastR01CA095548 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI IYER, VISHWANATH R · 2004 to 2013
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA095548
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A new paradigm has emerged in recent years characterizing transcription initiation as a bidirectional process encompassing a larger proportion of the genome than previously thought. Past concepts of coding genes thinly scattered among a vast background of transcriptionally inert noncoding DNA have been abandoned. A richer picture has taken shape, integrating transcription of coding genes, enhancer RNAs (eRNAs), and various other noncoding transcriptional events. In this review we give an overview of recent studies detailing the mechanisms of RNA polymerase II (RNA Pol II)-based transcriptional initiation and discuss the ways in which transcriptional direction is established as well as its functional implications.

Indexed as

Enhancer Elements, GeneticTranscription, GeneticChromatinHumansPromoter Regions, GeneticRNARNA Polymerase IITranscriptional ActivationChromatinRNARNA Polymerase IIdirectionalityenhancereRNAnucleosome-depleted regionpromotertranscriptional initiation

Identifiers

PMID27066865
PMCPMC4874897
OpenAlexW2320011971

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