Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30886348›Full record

ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2019

Old cogs, new tricks: the evolution of gene expression in a chromatin context.

Paul B Talbert, Michael P Meers, Steven Henikoff

Abstract readHistorical ArticleReview
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
62citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 120 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Genomic Profiling of Chromatin State Using CUT&Tag.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2027
    Article
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Decoding Local Adaptation in the Exploited Native Marine MusselInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Article
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Review
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Article
  19. Epigenetic regulation in adult neural stem cells.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
    Review
  20. Article

2 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Paul B TalbertHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Michael P MeersHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3438-3938
Steven HenikoffHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA. steveh@fhcrc.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7621-8685
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sophisticated gene-regulatory mechanisms probably evolved in prokaryotes billions of years before the emergence of modern eukaryotes, which inherited the same basic enzymatic machineries. However, the epigenomic landscapes of eukaryotes are dominated by nucleosomes, which have acquired roles in genome packaging, mitotic condensation and silencing parasitic genomic elements. Although the molecular mechanisms by which nucleosomes are displaced and modified have been described, just how transcription factors, histone variants and modifications and chromatin regulators act on nucleosomes to regulate transcription is the subject of considerable ongoing study. We explore the extent to which these transcriptional regulatory components function in the context of the evolutionarily ancient role of chromatin as a barrier to processes acting on DNA and how chromatin proteins have diversified to carry out evolutionarily recent functions that accompanied the emergence of differentiation and development in multicellular eukaryotes.

Indexed as

Chromatin Assembly and DisassemblyGenomeTranscription, GeneticAnimalsBiological EvolutionChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDNAEukaryotic CellsGenomicsHistonesHistory, 21st CenturyHistory, AncientHumansNucleosomesProkaryotic CellsTranscription FactorsChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDNAHistonesNucleosomesTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID30886348
OpenAlexW2922368400

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.