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ReviewScience advances2017

How do lncRNAs regulate transcription?

Yicheng Long, Xueyin Wang, Daniel T Youmans, Thomas R Cech

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Review in Science advances, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 427 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
427citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
21.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

427 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 700 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yicheng LongDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3578-5197
Xueyin WangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
Daniel T YoumansDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
Thomas R CechDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7338-3389
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

TERT Promoter Mutations and Telomerase Reactivation in Cancer CellsR01GM099705 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI CECH, THOMAS ROBERT · 2012 to 2019
$1.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has recently become apparent that RNA, itself the product of transcription, is a major regulator of the transcriptional process. In particular, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), which are so numerous in eukaryotes, function in many cases as transcriptional regulators. These RNAs function through binding to histone-modifying complexes, to DNA binding proteins (including transcription factors), and even to RNA polymerase II. In other cases, it is the act of lncRNA transcription rather than the lncRNA product that appears to be regulatory. We review recent progress in elucidating the molecular mechanisms by which lncRNAs modulate gene expression and future opportunities in this research field.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationTranscription, GeneticAnimalsCell NucleusDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA Modification MethylasesDrosophilaGene SilencingHistonesHumansProtein BindingRNA, Long NoncodingRNA Polymerase IITranscription FactorsX ChromosomeDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA Modification MethylasesHistonesRNA, Long NoncodingRNA Polymerase IITranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID28959731
PMCPMC5617379
OpenAlexW2760056442

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