Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29501816›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology2018

Imaging transcriptional dynamics.

Bomyi Lim

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In one paragraph

Review in Current opinion in biotechnology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Clocks and Dominoes: Timing Mechanisms of Embryogenesis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. Enhancer-Mediated Formation of Nuclear Transcription Initiation Domains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  11. Epigenome editing and epigenetic gene regulation in disease phenotypes.The Korean journal of chemical engineering · 2022
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  13. Dynamics ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  17. RNA Structure and Cellular Applications of Fluorescent Light-Up Aptamers.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2019
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bomyi LimDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: bomyilim@seas.upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Regulation of transcriptional bursting in the Drosophila embryoF32GM122186 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI LIM, BOMYI · 2017 to 2018
$62k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM122186
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in imaging techniques have enabled visualizations of nascent transcripts or individual protein molecules at high spatiotemporal resolution, revealing the complex nature of transcriptional regulation. Here, we highlight recent studies that have provided comprehensive insights to transcriptional dynamics using such quantitative imaging techniques. Specifically, they demonstrated that transcriptional activity is stochastic, and such transcriptional bursting is modulated by multiple components like chromatin environments, concentration of transcription factors, and enhancer-promoter interactions. Moreover, recent studies suggested that regulation of transcriptional activity is more complex than previously thought, by showing that transcription factors and RNA polymerases also move within the cell with distinct kinetics and sometimes form dynamic clusters to mediate transcriptional initiation.

Indexed as

Imaging, Three-DimensionalTranscription, GeneticAnimalsDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesEukaryotaHumansKineticsTranscription FactorsDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID29501816
PMCPMC6082720
OpenAlexW2794147207

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