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ArticleNature2020

Epigenetic gene silencing by heterochromatin primes fungal resistance.

Sito Torres-Garcia, Imtiyaz Yaseen, Manu Shukla, Pauline N C B Audergon, Sharon A White, Alison L Pidoux, Robin C Allshire

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
76citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-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

76 citing papers in PubMed, 134 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

7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Sito Torres-GarciaWellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1029-8325
Imtiyaz YaseenWellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Manu ShuklaWellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Pauline N C B AudergonWellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Sharon A WhiteWellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Alison L PidouxWellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Robin C AllshireWellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. robin.allshire@ed.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8005-3625
Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K001744/1Wellcome Trust 093852Wellcome Trust 095021Wellcome Trust 200885Wellcome Trust 200885/Z/16/ZWellcome Trust 203149
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heterochromatin that depends on histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) renders embedded genes transcriptionally silent

Indexed as

Gene SilencingCaffeineDrug Resistance, FungalHeterochromatinHistone AcetyltransferasesNuclear ProteinsPhenotypeSchizosaccharomycesSchizosaccharomyces pombe ProteinsCaffeineepe1 protein, S pombeHeterochromatinHistone AcetyltransferasesMst2 protein, S pombeNuclear ProteinsSchizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins

Identifiers

PMID32908306
PMCPMC7116710
OpenAlexW3084285889

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Registered trials

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