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ReviewCell death and differentiation2025

Remembering foods and foes: emerging principles of transcriptional memory.

Sahar S H Tehrani, Anna Kogan, Pawel Mikulski, Lars E T Jansen

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Review in Cell death and differentiation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Innate Immune Memory is Stimulus Specific.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sahar S H TehraniDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, OX1 3QU, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5315-5928
Anna KoganDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, OX1 3QU, Oxford, UK.
Pawel MikulskiDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, OX1 3QU, Oxford, UK. pawel.mikulski@bioch.ox.ac.uk.
Lars E T JansenDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, OX1 3QU, Oxford, UK. lars.jansen@bioch.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2158-0345

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust (Wellcome) 210645/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcriptional memory is characterized by a primed cellular state, induced by an external stimulus that results in an altered expression of primed genes upon re-exposure to the inducing signal. Intriguingly, the primed state is heritably maintained across somatic cell divisions even after the initial stimulus and target gene transcription cease. This phenomenon is widely observed across various organisms and appears to enable cells to retain a memory of external signals, thereby adapting to environmental changes. Signals range from nutrient supplies (food) to a variety of stress signals, including exposure to pathogens (foes), leading to long-term memory such as in the case of trained immunity in plants and mammals. Here, we review these priming phenomena and our current understanding of transcriptional memory. We consider different mechanistic models for how memory can work and discuss existing evidence for potential carriers of memory. Key molecular signatures include: the poising of RNA polymerase II machinery, maintenance of histone marks, as well as alterations in nuclear positioning and long-range chromatin interactions. Finally, we discuss the potential adaptive roles of transcriptional memory in the organismal response to its environment from nutrient sensing to trained immunity.

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Transcription, GeneticAnimalsHumansRNA Polymerase IIRNA Polymerase II

Identifiers

PMID37563261
PMCPMC11748651

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