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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2021

The Causes and Consequences of Spatial Organization of the Genome in Regulation of Gene Expression.

Marios Agelopoulos, Spyros Foutadakis, Dimitris Thanos

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marios AgelopoulosBiomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Spyros FoutadakisBiomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Dimitris ThanosBiomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Academy of Athens · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulation of gene expression in time, space and quantity is orchestrated by the functional interplay of cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors. Our current view postulates that transcription factors recognize enhancer DNA and read the transcriptional regulatory code by cooperative DNA binding to specific DNA motifs, thus instructing the recruitment of transcriptional regulatory complexes forming a plethora of higher-ordered multi-protein-DNA and protein-protein complexes. Here, we reviewed the formation of multi-dimensional chromatin assemblies implicated in gene expression with emphasis on the regulatory role of enhancer hubs as coordinators of stochastic gene expression. Enhancer hubs contain many interacting regulatory elements and represent a remarkably dynamic and heterogeneous network of multivalent interactions. A functional consequence of such complex interaction networks could be that individual enhancers function synergistically to ensure coordination, tight control and robustness in regulation of expression of spatially connected genes. In this review, we discuss fundamental paradigms of such inter- and intra- chromosomal associations both in the context of immune-related genes and beyond.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationGenomeAnimalsChromatinChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyDNA-Binding ProteinsEnhancer Elements, GeneticGenomicsHumansPromoter Regions, GeneticTranscription FactorsChromatinDNA-Binding ProteinsTranscription Factorschromatinenhancer hubsenhancersregulation of transcriptionstochastic expressiontranscription factors

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PMID34149720
PMCPMC8212036
OpenAlexW3172854509

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