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ReviewOpen biology2022

RNA polymerase II pausing in development: orchestrating transcription.

Abderhman Abuhashem, Vidur Garg, Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

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Review in Open biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Abderhman AbuhashemDevelopmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6135-5679
Vidur GargDevelopmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Anna-Katerina HadjantonakisDevelopmental Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7580-5124

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Nicholas D Socci · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering MST ProgramT32GM007739 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI HSU, KATHARINE C · 1985 to 2023
$51.1M
Mechanisms driving cell fate specification and morphogenesis in the blastocystR01HD094868 · NICHD · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI ANNA-KATERINA HADJANTONAKIS · 2018 to 2026
$4.2M
Phenotyping Early Embryonic Lethal Knockout Mice to Identify Essential Genes with Previously Uncharacterized Roles in Pre-implantation Development, Gastrulation, Turning, and PlacentationR01HD086478 · NICHD · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI HADJANTONAKIS, ANNA-KATERINA · 2016 to 2020
$3.4M
The gut endoderm: origin, formation and fateR01DK127821 · NIDDK · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI ANNA-KATERINA HADJANTONAKIS · 2021 to 2026
$3.4M
Dissecting the Role of RNA Pol II Pausing in Early Mammalian DevelopmentF30HD103398 · NICHD · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ABUHASHEM, ABDERHMAN ANEES · 2021 to 2024
$178k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NICHD NIH HHS F30 HD103398NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD086478NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD094868NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK127821NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007739
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coordinated regulation of transcriptional networks underpins cellular identity and developmental progression. RNA polymerase II promoter-proximal pausing (Pol II pausing) is a prevalent mechanism by which cells can control and synchronize transcription. Pol II pausing regulates the productive elongation step of transcription at key genes downstream of a variety of signalling pathways, such as FGF and Nodal. Recent advances in our understanding of the Pol II pausing machinery and its role in transcription call for an assessment of these findings within the context of development. In this review, we discuss our current understanding of the molecular basis of Pol II pausing and its function during organismal development. By critically assessing the tools used to study this process we conclude that combining recently developed genomics approaches with refined perturbation systems has the potential to expand our understanding of Pol II pausing mechanistically and functionally in the context of development and beyond.

Indexed as

Gene Regulatory NetworksRNA Polymerase IIPromoter Regions, GeneticSignal TransductionTranscription, GeneticRNA Polymerase IIdevelopmentembryonic stem cellsPol II pausingtranscription

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PMID34982944
PMCPMC8727152

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