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ReviewExperimental & molecular medicine2024

Enhancer-promoter specificity in gene transcription: molecular mechanisms and disease associations.

Meyer J Friedman, Tobias Wagner, Haram Lee, Michael G Rosenfeld, Soohwan Oh

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Review in Experimental & molecular medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
8.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Meyer J FriedmanDepartment and School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Tobias WagnerDepartment and School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Haram LeeCollege of Pharmacy Korea University, 2511 Sejong-ro, Sejong, 30019, Republic of Korea.
Michael G RosenfeldDepartment and School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. mrosenfeld@health.ucsd.edu.
Soohwan OhCollege of Pharmacy Korea University, 2511 Sejong-ro, Sejong, 30019, Republic of Korea. soohwanoh@korea.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4860-034X
University of California San Diego · USSejong University · KR

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2023R1C1C1010699
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although often located at a distance from their target gene promoters, enhancers are the primary genomic determinants of temporal and spatial transcriptional specificity in metazoans. Since the discovery of the first enhancer element in simian virus 40, there has been substantial interest in unraveling the mechanism(s) by which enhancers communicate with their partner promoters to ensure proper gene expression. These research efforts have benefited considerably from the application of increasingly sophisticated sequencing- and imaging-based approaches in conjunction with innovative (epi)genome-editing technologies; however, despite various proposed models, the principles of enhancer-promoter interaction have still not been fully elucidated. In this review, we provide an overview of recent progress in the eukaryotic gene transcription field pertaining to enhancer-promoter specificity. A better understanding of the mechanistic basis of lineage- and context-dependent enhancer-promoter engagement, along with the continued identification of functional enhancers, will provide key insights into the spatiotemporal control of gene expression that can reveal therapeutic opportunities for a range of enhancer-related diseases.

Indexed as

Enhancer Elements, GeneticGene Expression RegulationPromoter Regions, GeneticTranscription, GeneticAnimalsHumans

Identifiers

PMID38658702
PMCPMC11058250
OpenAlexW4395457790

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