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ReviewJournal of leukocyte biology2016

Bromodomain 4: a cellular Swiss army knife.

Ballachanda N Devaiah, Anne Gegonne, Dinah S Singer

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Review in Journal of leukocyte biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
90citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

90 citing papers in PubMed, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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30 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ballachanda N DevaiahExperimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Anne GegonneExperimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Dinah S SingerExperimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA dinah.singer@nih.gov.
National Institutes of Health · USNational Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Brd4 is an atypical kinase that regulates transcriptionZIABC011381 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI SINGER, DINAH S. · 2011 to 2025
$5.4M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bromodomain protein 4 (BRD4) is a transcriptional and epigenetic regulator that plays a pivotal role in cancer and inflammatory diseases. BRD4 binds and stays associated with chromatin during mitosis, bookmarking early G1 genes and reactivating transcription after mitotic silencing. BRD4 plays an important role in transcription, both as a passive scaffold via its recruitment of vital transcription factors and as an active kinase that phosphorylates RNA polymerase II, directly and indirectly regulating transcription. Through its HAT activity, BRD4 contributes to the maintenance of chromatin structure and nucleosome clearance. This review summarizes the known functions of BRD4 and proposes a model in which BRD4 actively coordinates chromatin structure and transcription.

Indexed as

AcetylationBromodomain Containing ProteinsCell CycleCell Cycle ProteinsCell DifferentiationChromatinGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHistone AcetyltransferasesHumansModels, GeneticNeoplasm ProteinsNuclear ProteinsNucleosomesOncogene Proteins, FusionPhosphorylationProtein DomainsBRD4-NUT fusion oncogene protein, humanBRD4 protein, humanBrd4 protein, mouseBromodomain Containing ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsChromatinHistone AcetyltransferasesNeoplasm ProteinsNuclear ProteinsNucleosomesOncogene Proteins, FusionRNA Polymerase IITranscription FactorsacetyltransferaseBRD4kinasenucleosome evictionPol II

Identifiers

PMID27450555
PMCPMC5014741
OpenAlexW2493422757

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