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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Measuring the buffering capacity of gene silencing in

Kenneth Wu, Namrita Dhillon, Kelvin Du, Rohinton T Kamakaka

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kenneth WuDepartment of Molecular Cell Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.ORCID 0000-0001-7097-0553
Namrita DhillonDepartment of Molecular Cell Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.
Kelvin DuDepartment of Molecular Cell Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.
Rohinton T KamakakaDepartment of Molecular Cell Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 rohinton@ucsc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1931-7000
University of California, Santa Cruz · US

Funding

Training Program/Molecular/Cell/Developmental BiologyT32GM008646 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI STROME, SUSAN · 1999 to 2018
$3.7M
Chromatin Domain DynamicsR01GM078068 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI KAMAKAKA, ROHINTON T. · 2007 to 2018
$3.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078068NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008646
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene silencing in budding yeast is mediated by Sir protein binding to unacetylated nucleosomes to form a chromatin structure that inhibits transcription. Transcriptional silencing is characterized by the high-fidelity transmission of the silent state. Despite its relative stability, the constituent parts of the silent state are in constant flux, giving rise to a model that silent loci can tolerate such fluctuations without functional consequences. However, the level of tolerance is unknown, and we developed methods to measure the threshold of histone acetylation that causes the silent chromatin state to switch to the active state as well as to measure the levels of the enzymes and structural proteins necessary for silencing. We show that loss of silencing required 50 to 75% acetyl-mimic histones, though the precise levels were influenced by silencer strength and upstream activating sequence (UAS) enhancer/promoter strength. Measurements of repressor protein levels necessary for silencing showed that reducing

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AcetylationChromatinGene SilencingHeterochromatinHistonesNucleosomesProtein BindingSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSilent Information Regulator Proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiaeSirtuin 2TelomereChromatinHeterochromatinHistonesNucleosomesSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSilent Information Regulator Proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiaeSIR2 protein, S cerevisiaeSIR3 protein, S cerevisiaeSirtuin 2chromatinepigeneticshistonessilencingSir protein

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PMID34857629
PMCPMC8670432
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