Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29351877›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2018

REST, a master transcriptional regulator in neurodegenerative disease.

Jee-Yeon Hwang, R Suzanne Zukin

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 151 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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151citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
10.1field-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

151 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 258 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Transcription factors Lef1 and Rest stimulate recovery from depressive states.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  15. Proliferation of activated hepatic stellate cells requires REST.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026
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  18. MicroRNAs in neurodegenerative diseases: from molecular mechanisms to clinical biomarkers, detection methods and therapeutic strategies-advances and challenges.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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91 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jee-Yeon HwangDominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Rose F. Kennedy Center, Room 610, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, New York, NY 10461, USA.
R Suzanne ZukinDominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Rose F. Kennedy Center, Room 610, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, New York, NY 10461, USA. Electronic address: suzanne.zukin@einstein.yu.edu.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USJohn F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · US

Funding

REST-Activated Program of Gene Expression in IschemiaR01NS046742 · NINDS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COL OF MED YESHIVA UNIV · PI ZUKIN, R. SUZANNE · 2004 to 2019
$6.1M
Dysregulation of mTOR Signaling in Fragile X SyndromeR01MH092877 · NIMH · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI ZUKIN, R. SUZANNE · 2011 to 2021
$4.3M
Epigenetic Remodeling of NMDA ReceptorsR01HD083828 · NICHD · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI ZUKIN, R. SUZANNE · 2016 to 2020
$1.7M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD083828NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH092877NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS046742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The restrictive element-1 silencing transcription factor)/NRSF (neuron-restrictive silencing factor (NRSF) is a transcriptional repressor which acts via epigenetic remodeling to silence target genes. Emerging evidence indicates that REST is a master transcriptional regulator of neuron-specific genes not only in neurogenesis and neuronal differentiation, but also in differentiated neurons during the critical period in postnatal brain development, where it plays a role in fine-tuning of genes involved in synaptic plasticity, and in normal aging, where it promotes neuroprotection by repressing genes involved in oxidative stress and β-amyloid toxicity. This review focuses on recent findings that dysregulation of REST and REST-dependent epigenetic remodeling provide a central mechanism critical to the progressive neurodegeneration associated with neurologic disorders and diseases including global ischemia, stroke, epilepsy, Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

Indexed as

AnimalsEpigenomicsGene Expression RegulationHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesRE1-Silencing Transcription FactorRepressor ProteinsRE1-Silencing Transcription FactorRepressor Proteins

Identifiers

PMID29351877
PMCPMC5892838
OpenAlexW2791429709

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