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ArticleeLife2020

Shadow enhancers can suppress input transcription factor noise through distinct regulatory logic.

Rachel Waymack, Alvaro Fletcher, German Enciso, Zeba Wunderlich

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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  14. Contributions of transcriptional noise to leukaemia evolution: KAT2A as a case-study.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rachel WaymackDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States.
Alvaro FletcherMathematical, Computational, and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States.
German EncisoDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States.
Zeba WunderlichDepartment of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4491-5715

Funding

Multiscale Models of Wound Cell Plasticity for RegenerationU01AR073159 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI DAI, XING, NIE, QING · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
Mechanisms of shadow enhancer robustness during developmentR01HD095246 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Zeba B Wunderlich · 2018 to 2026
$2.7M
Mathematical, Computational and Systems BiologyT32EB009418 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI LANDER, ARTHUR D, NIE, QING · 2009 to 2019
$2.4M
Dissecting expression divergence in developmental networks across DrosophilidsR00HD073191 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI WUNDERLICH, ZEBA B · 2015 to 2017
$745k
National Science Foundation DMS1763272NIAMS NIH HHS U01 AR073159NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB009418NICHD NIH HHS R00 HD073191NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD095246Simons Foundation 594598
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shadow enhancers, groups of seemingly redundant enhancers, are found in a wide range of organisms and are critical for robust developmental patterning. However, their mechanism of action is unknown. We hypothesized that shadow enhancers drive consistent expression levels by buffering upstream noise through a separation of transcription factor (TF) inputs at the individual enhancers. By measuring the transcriptional dynamics of several

Indexed as

Transcription FactorsAnimalsDrosophilaEmbryo, NonmammalianEnhancer Elements, GeneticFemaleGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalLogicMaleStochastic ProcessesTranscription Factorschromosomescomputational biologydevelopmentD. melanogasterenhancersgene expressionnoiseshadow enhancerssystems biology

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PMID32804082
PMCPMC7556877

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