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Xist localization and function: new insights from multiple levels

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology (Online Edition), August 2015
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Title
Xist localization and function: new insights from multiple levels
Published in
Genome Biology (Online Edition), August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13059-015-0733-y
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Authors

Andrea Cerase, Greta Pintacuda, Anna Tattermusch, Philip Avner

Abstract

In female m ammals, one of the two X chromosomes in each cell is transcriptionally silenced in order to achieve dosage compensation between the genders in a process called X chromosome inactivation. The master regulator of this process is the long non-coding RNA Xist. During X-inactivation, Xist accumulates in cis on the future inactive X chromosome, triggering a cascade of events that provoke the stable silencing of the entire chromosome, with relatively few genes remaining active. How Xist spreads, what are its binding sites, how it recruits silencing factors and how it induces a specific topological and nuclear organization of the chromatin all remain largely unanswered questions. Recent studies have improved our understanding of Xist localization and the proteins with which it interacts, allowing a reappraisal of ideas about Xist function. We discuss recent advances in our knowledge of Xist-mediated silencing, focusing on Xist spreading, the nuclear organization of the inactive X chromosome, recruitment of the polycomb complex and the role of the nuclear matrix in the process of X chromosome inactivation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Singapore 1 <1%
Unknown 281 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 73 26%
Student > Bachelor 49 17%
Student > Master 45 16%
Researcher 38 13%
Student > Postgraduate 9 3%
Other 32 11%
Unknown 39 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 124 44%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 81 28%
Neuroscience 6 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 6 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 2%
Other 19 7%
Unknown 43 15%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 April 2016.
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#2,942,305
of 22,824,164 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology (Online Edition)
#2,193
of 4,115 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39,756
of 263,348 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology (Online Edition)
#42
of 76 outputs
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