Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29187597›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry2018

Emerging roles of transcriptional enhancers in chromatin looping and promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II.

Huan Meng, Blaine Bartholomew

Open access · hybridAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Inhibition of triglyceride metabolism-associated enhancers alters lipid deposition during adipocyte differentiation.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
    Article
  10. Article
  11. Prognosis of colon cancer patients based on enhancer RNAs-related genes.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023
    Article
  12. Review
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Potential of Long Non-Coding RNAs in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
    Review
  19. Article
  20. Article
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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Huan MengFrom the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas 78957 huan.meng@bcm.edu.
Blaine BartholomewFrom the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, Texas 78957 bbartholomew@mdanderson.org.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Initiation and regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) in eukaryotes rely on the transcriptional regulatory elements. Promoters and enhancers share similar architectures and functions, and the prevailing view is that they can initiate bidirectional transcription. We summarize functional roles of enhancer transcription and possible mechanisms in enhancer-promoter communication. We discuss the potential roles of enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) in early elongation and highlight that transcriptional enhancers might modulate the release of paused RNAPII via 3D chromatin looping. Emerging evidence suggests that transcriptional enhancers regulate the promoter-proximal pausing of RNAPII, a key rate-limiting step required for productive elongation.

Indexed as

AnimalsChromatinEnhancer Elements, GeneticHumansRNA Polymerase IITranscription Elongation, GeneticChromatinRNA Polymerase IIchromatinchromatin modificationchromatin regulationgene transcriptionnuclear organizationtranscription enhancer

Identifiers

PMID29187597
PMCPMC6130961
OpenAlexW2770170359

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.