Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• A global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition.

  PMID 23951546 · PMC3743134 · eLife · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Massive de novo recruitment of Pol II (and TBP) with widespread pausing occurs during the Drosophila midblastula transition, at 4007 promoters (~one third of all genes).

  hand-sorted drosophila chip-seq immunostaining dapi

• Enhancer RNAs stimulate Pol II pause release by harnessing multivalent interactions to NELF.

  PMID 35508485 · PMC9068813 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  eRNAs longer than 200 nucleotides that contain unpaired guanosines make multiple, allosteric contacts with NELF subunits -A and -E to trigger efficient NELF release

  cortical transcribed reconstituted erna-bound gro-seq exo-seq shape-map

• Cell type differences in human cytomegalovirus transcription and epigenetic regulation with insights into major immediate-early enhancer-promoter control.

  PMID 40758707 · PMC12333995 · PLoS pathogens · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Six viral promoters (UL5, UL72, EP3, UL57-AS, US16-AS, US30-S) are ≥50-fold more active in D-NT2 than in HFF at 96 h post-infection and are classified as viral long promoters.

  d-nt2 hcmv-infected hcmv pro-seq dff-chip promoter

• Critical Role for the Human Cytomegalovirus Major Immediate Early Proteins in Recruitment of RNA Polymerase II and H3K27Ac To an Enhancer-Like Element in OriLyt.

  PMID 36645269 · PMC9927211 · Microbiology spectrum · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An enhancer-like element in OriLyt (RNA4.9 promoter) is extraordinarily enriched in H3K27Ac compared to other viral loci.

  hff mrc5 chip-qpcr rt-qpcr chipseq

• High-resolution mapping of transcriptional dynamics across tissue development reveals a stable mRNA-tRNA interface.

  PMID 25122613 · PMC4216921 · Genome research · 2014 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  mRNA codon and amino acid pools are highly stable across mouse development and across tissues, simply reflecting the genomic background distribution of any possible transcriptome.

  c57bl strand-specific pol computational

• Transcriptional landscape of repetitive elements in normal and cancer human cells.

  PMID 25012247 · PMC4122776 · BMC genomics · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  RepEnrich, a computational method that uses all mapping reads (uniquely mapping plus multi-mapping reads assigned to repetitive element subfamily assemblies/pseudogenomes), quantifies genome-wide repetitive element enrichment

  chromosomes lines imr-90 prostate simulated pol chip-seq

• Inference of RNA polymerase II transcription dynamics from chromatin immunoprecipitation time course data.

  PMID 24830797 · PMC4022483 · PLoS computational biology · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A convolved Gaussian process model of pol-II occupancy across gene segments captures the transcription wave and yields estimates of transcription speed and promoter-proximal pol-II activity.

  mcf7 promoter gene signals pol-ii clustering transcription

• Frequency and patterns of ribonucleotide incorporation around autonomously replicating sequences in yeast reveal the division of labor of replicative DNA polymerases.

  PMID 34551434 · PMC8501979 · Nucleic acids research · 2021 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  rNTP incorporation is preferentially found on the leading strand in yeast cells expressing wild-type replicative DNA polymerases

  saccharomyces model ribose-seq emriboseq rhii-hyden-seq

• Dynamics and regulation of mitotic chromatin accessibility bookmarking at single-cell resolution.

  PMID 36696508 · PMC9876548 · Science advances · 2023 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  Chromatin accessibility continually decreases from mitotic entry until metaphase, then gradually increases as chromosomes segregate.

  l02 tissues hepatoma scatac-seq immunofluorescence atac-see

• Chromatin architecture reprogramming reveals novel epigenetic dependencies in breast cancer.

  PMID 41412800 · PMC12849445 · Genes & development · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  H3K9 methylation and the demethylase KDM4C, through association with SWI/SNF, drive proliferation of cells fated to become endocrine-resistant via a nongenomic estrogen-mediated mechanism

  parental t47d esr1 scrna-seq hi-c atac-seq

• Sequential RNA polymerase II activation drives human hematopoiesis.

  PMID 41520338 · PMC13067999 · Cell reports · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  sciCUT&Tag2in1 enables simultaneous single-cell combinatorial-indexing profiling of Pol II occupancy (Ser5/Ser2-phospho CTD) together with histone modifications (H3K4me1-2-3 or H3K27me3) in up to 50,000 cells per experiment

  g-csf-mobilized cd34+ 10-donor lineage-depleted scicut&tag2in1 individual souporcell

• NELF prevents transcriptional readthrough into DNA replication zones in cancer cells.

  PMID 41721097 · PMC13076867 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  NELFCD transcript and NELF subunit protein levels are significantly upregulated in colorectal tumors (COAD/READ) relative to normal tissue

  gtex nelf-c-aid spt4-aid parental rna-seq western growth

• A methyl-sensitive element induces bidirectional transcription in TATA-less CpG island-associated promoters.

  PMID 30332484 · PMC6192621 · PloS one · 2018 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The CGCG element (consensus TCTCGCGAGA) is a novel promoter motif enriched in TATA-less CpG island-associated promoters of ribosomal protein and housekeeping genes

  k562 hek293t hek293t-derived motif gro-cap luciferase

• Mod(mdg4) variants repress telomeric retrotransposon HeT-A by blocking subtelomeric enhancers.

  PMID 36373634 · PMC9723646 · Nucleic acids research · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Specific splice variants of Mod(mdg4) repress HeT-A by blocking subtelomeric enhancers in ovarian somatic cells (OSCs)

  drosophila ovarian osc melanogaster chip-seq sirna western

• NET-prism enables RNA polymerase-dedicated transcriptional interrogation at nucleotide resolution.

  PMID 31156037 · PMC6693550 · RNA biology · 2019 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  NET-prism, an adapted NET-seq protocol using immunoprecipitation of Pol II-associated factors, enables strand-specific, nucleotide-resolution interrogation of transcription dynamics for any Pol II-interacting protein.

  e14 mass western net-prism

• TP53 engagement with the genome occurs in distinct local chromatin environments via pioneer factor activity.

  PMID 25391375 · PMC4315292 · Genome research · 2015 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TP53 binding events fall into three distinct categories defined by the local chromatin environment: TSS (H3K4me3+), enhancer (H3K4me1+/H3K4me3-), and distal (H3K4me1-/H3K4me3-) peaks.

  imr90 hct116 chip-seq rna-seq atac-seq

• Spatial transcriptomics reveals expression gradients in developing wheat inflorescences at cellular resolution.

  PMID 41388990 · PMC12776951 · The Plant cell · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  MERFISH was successfully optimized for wheat inflorescence tissue, enabling localization of a 200-gene panel to cellular resolution across 4 developmental stages

  microdissected cryosectioned wheat merfish-imaged bulk merfish single-nucleus

• Long non-coding RNA LINC00607 epigenetically regulates endothelial TSPAN18 to promote hypoxia-induced thromboinflammation.

  PMID 41581880 · PMC12992942 · The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  LINC00607 is a hypoxia-inducible, endothelial-enriched lncRNA that positively regulates TSPAN18 expression

  huvecs rna-seq gro-seq atac-seq

• Genome-wide kinetic properties of transcriptional bursting in mouse embryonic stem cells.

  PMID 32596448 · PMC7299619 · Science advances · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Transcriptional bursting kinetics is regulated by a combination of promoter- and gene body-binding proteins, including the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) and transcription elongation factors

  cast knock-in mesc mescs single-cell single-molecule flow

• Arabidopsis RBV is a conserved WD40 repeat protein that promotes microRNA biogenesis and ARGONAUTE1 loading.

  PMID 35260568 · PMC8904849 · Nature communications · 2022 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  RBV, a WD40 repeat protein, is required for global microRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis

  amir-sul col 14-day-old arabidopsis small rna-seq gel