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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2021

Breakers and amplifiers in chromatin circuitry: acetylation and ubiquitination control the heterochromatin machinery.

Luke T Bailey, Sarah J Northall, Thomas Schalch

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  3. mBio · 2025
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  4. Oncogenic IDH1Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Context-dependent function of the transcriptional regulator Rap1 in gene silencing and activation inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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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.

Luke T BaileyLeicester Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK.
Sarah J NorthallLeicester Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK.
Thomas SchalchLeicester Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK. Electronic address: thomas.schalch@le.ac.uk.
University of Leicester · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S018549/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eukaryotic genomes are segregated into active euchromatic and repressed heterochromatic compartments. Gene regulatory networks, chromosomal structures, and genome integrity rely on the timely and locus-specific establishment of active and silent states to protect the genome and provide the basis for cell division and specification of cellular identity. Here, we focus on the mechanisms and molecular machinery that establish heterochromatin in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and compare it with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the mammalian polycomb system. We present recent structural and mechanistic evidence, which suggests that histone acetylation protects active transcription by disrupting the positive feedback loops used by the heterochromatin machinery and that H2A and H3 monoubiquitination actively drives heterochromatin, whereas H2B monoubiquitination mobilizes the defenses to quench heterochromatin.

Indexed as

HeterochromatinSchizosaccharomycesAcetylationAnimalsChromatinHistonesSilent Information Regulator Proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiaeUbiquitinationChromatinHeterochromatinHistonesSilent Information Regulator Proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Identifiers

PMID34303934
PMCPMC8667873
OpenAlexW3185487946

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