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ArticleNature communications2022

Cohesin couples transcriptional bursting probabilities of inducible enhancers and promoters.

Irene Robles-Rebollo, Sergi Cuartero, Adria Canellas-Socias, Sarah Wells, Mohammad M Karimi, Elisabetta Mereu, Alexandra G Chivu, Holger Heyn, Chad Whilding, Dirk Dormann and 6 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 40 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

16 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.

Irene Robles-RebolloMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7720-8182
Sergi CuarteroMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9338-583X
Adria Canellas-SociasMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.
Sarah WellsMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.
Mohammad M KarimiMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5017-1252
Elisabetta MereuCNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain.
Alexandra G ChivuMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8875-3530
Holger HeynCNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3276-1889
Chad WhildingMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.
Dirk DormannMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.
Samuel MargueratMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2402-3165
Inmaculada RiojaEpigenetics RU, GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, UK.
Rab K PrinjhaEpigenetics RU, GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, UK.
Michael P H StumpfTheoretical Systems Biology Group, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3577-1222
Amanda G FisherMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3010-3644
Matthias MerkenschlagerMRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK. matthias.merkenschlager@lms.mrc.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-2889-3288
MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences · GBCentre for Genomic Regulation · ESGlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom) · GBCornell University · USInstitute for Research in Biomedicine · ESJosep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute · ESKing's College London · GBThe University of Melbourne · AU

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U120027516Medical Research Council MC_UP_1102/8Medical Research Council MC_UP_1605/12Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 099276/Z/12/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Innate immune responses rely on inducible gene expression programmes which, in contrast to steady-state transcription, are highly dependent on cohesin. Here we address transcriptional parameters underlying this cohesin-dependence by single-molecule RNA-FISH and single-cell RNA-sequencing. We show that inducible innate immune genes are regulated predominantly by an increase in the probability of active transcription, and that probabilities of enhancer and promoter transcription are coordinated. Cohesin has no major impact on the fraction of transcribed inducible enhancers, or the number of mature mRNAs produced per transcribing cell. Cohesin is, however, required for coupling the probabilities of enhancer and promoter transcription. Enhancer-promoter coupling may not be explained by spatial proximity alone, and at the model locus Il12b can be disrupted by selective inhibition of the cohesinopathy-associated BET bromodomain BD2. Our data identify discrete steps in enhancer-mediated inducible gene expression that differ in cohesin-dependence, and suggest that cohesin and BD2 may act on shared pathways.

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Chromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneEnhancer Elements, GeneticCell Cycle ProteinsCohesinsProbabilityRNACell Cycle ProteinsChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneCohesinsRNA

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PMID35896525
PMCPMC9329429
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