Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37657353›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2023

Epigenetic inheritance and boundary maintenance at human centromeres.

Pragya Sidhwani, Aaron F Straight

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The CENP-A chaperone complex spatially organizes centromeres.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  7. The dynamic centromere.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pragya SidhwaniDepartment of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/@pra_sidh.
Aaron F StraightDepartment of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. Electronic address: astraigh@stanford.edu.
Stanford Medicine · USStanford University · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Kinetochore AssemblyR01GM074728 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Aaron F Straight · 2005 to 2026
$6.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM074728
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Centromeres are chromosomal regions that provide the foundation for microtubule attachment during chromosome segregation. Centromeres are epigenetically defined by nucleosomes containing the histone H3 variant centromere protein A (CENP-A) and, in many organisms, are surrounded by transcriptionally repressed pericentromeric chromatin marked by trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9me3). Pericentromeric regions facilitate sister chromatid cohesion during mitosis, thereby supporting centromere function. Heterochromatin has a known propensity to spread into adjacent euchromatic domains unless it is properly bounded. Heterochromatin spreading into the centromere can disrupt kinetochore function, perturbing chromosome segregation and genome stability. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, tRNA genes provide barriers to heterochromatin spread at the centromere, the absence of which results in abnormal meiotic chromosome segregation. How heterochromatin-centromere boundaries are established in humans is not understood. We propose models for stable epigenetic inheritance of centromeric domains in humans and discuss advances that will enable the discovery of novel regulators of this process.

Indexed as

HistonesSchizosaccharomycesCentromereChromatinEpigenesis, GeneticHeterochromatinHumansChromatinHeterochromatinHistones

Identifiers

PMID37657353
PMCPMC10530090
OpenAlexW4386281888

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