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ReviewBioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology2023

Understanding fundamental principles of enhancer biology at a model locus: Analysing the structure and function of an enhancer cluster at the α-globin locus.

Mira Kassouf, Seren Ford, Joseph Blayney, Doug Higgs

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Review in BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Mechanisms of Globin Gene Regulation in Mammals.Annual review of genetics · 2025
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  5. Is Enhancer Function Driven by Protein-Protein Interactions? From Bacteria to Leukemia.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  6. Article
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  8. A mammalian tripartite enhancer cluster controls hypothalamicProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mira KassoufLaboratory of Gene Regulation, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Seren FordLaboratory of Gene Regulation, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Joseph BlayneyLaboratory of Gene Regulation, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Doug HiggsLaboratory of Gene Regulation, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3579-8705
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/T014067/1Medical Research Council MR/X001210/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 219979/Z/19/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite ever-increasing accumulation of genomic data, the fundamental question of how individual genes are switched on during development, lineage-specification and differentiation is not fully answered. It is widely accepted that this involves the interaction between at least three fundamental regulatory elements: enhancers, promoters and insulators. Enhancers contain transcription factor binding sites which are bound by transcription factors (TFs) and co-factors expressed during cell fate decisions and maintain imposed patterns of activation, at least in part, via their epigenetic modification. This information is transferred from enhancers to their cognate promoters often by coming into close physical proximity to form a 'transcriptional hub' containing a high concentration of TFs and co-factors. The mechanisms underlying these stages of transcriptional activation are not fully explained. This review focuses on how enhancers and promoters are activated during differentiation and how multiple enhancers work together to regulate gene expression. We illustrate the currently understood principles of how mammalian enhancers work and how they may be perturbed in enhanceropathies using expression of the α-globin gene cluster during erythropoiesis, as a model.

Indexed as

alpha-GlobinsEnhancer Elements, GeneticAnimalsBiologyMammalsPromoter Regions, GeneticTranscription Factorsalpha-GlobinsTranscription Factorsalpha globin locusenhancer clusterenhancer functionenhanceropathieserythropoiesisgene regulationsuper-enhancer

Identifiers

PMID37404089
PMCPMC11414744
OpenAlexW4383186597

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