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).

• 7SL RNA and signal recognition particle orchestrate a global cellular response to acute thermal stress.

  PMID 39952919 · PMC11828898 · Nature communications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Heat shock induces de novo transcription and nuclear accumulation of 7SL RNA together with SRP proteins, which then bind chromatin at promoters

  embryonic nih3t3 pro-seq fractionation fluorescence

• Atlas of nascent RNA transcripts reveals tissue-specific enhancer to gene linkages.

  PMID 40281430 · PMC12032694 · BMC genomics · 2025 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A large repository of nascent run-on RNA-seq samples (DBNascent) was assembled and uniformly processed to identify sites of bidirectional transcription genome-wide.

  bidirectional across high-quality nascent comparative eqtl

• Modeling nascent transcription from chromatin landscape and structure with CLASTER.

  PMID 41691282 · PMC13011747 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  CLASTER, a deep neural network combining chromatin landscape tracks and 3D contact maps, accurately predicts kilobasepair-resolution nascent RNA (EU-seq) profiles in a DNA-sequence-agnostic manner

  embryonic mescs chromatin k562 eu-seq chip-seq micro-c

• spotter: a single-nucleotide resolution stochastic simulation model of supercoiling-mediated transcription and translation in prokaryotes.

  PMID 37602419 · PMC10516669 · Nucleic acids research · 2023 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  spotter is the first simulation model to integrate transcription, DNA supercoiling, and translation simultaneously in a single stochastic framework for prokaryotes.

  coli simulated net-seq ribosome stochastic

• Transcriptional readthrough precedes alternative splicing programs triggered in CML cells by imatinib.

  PMID 41860998 · PMC13004010 · Science advances · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Imatinib treatment induces transcriptional readthrough in K562 CML cells within 1 hour, before detectable gene expression or alternative splicing changes

  k562 imatinib-resistant long-read short-read rt-qpcr

• Precancerous niche remodelling dictates nascent tumour persistence.

  PMID 41781610 · PMC13148994 · Nature · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Newly emerging tumours actively remodel their surrounding stroma into a 'precancerous niche' that determines their long-term survival.

  upper nascent oesophagus carcinogen-free immunofluorescence edu immune

• The cotranslational cycle of the ribosome-bound Hsp70 homolog Ssb.

  PMID 41545346 · PMC12847954 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Rpl25 (uL23) is the primary ribosomal binding site for Ssb, mediated by salt-bridge interactions between the Ssb RKKR-motif (R596/K597/K603/R604) and the Rpl25 EDD-motif (E77/D131/D134)

  yeast recombinant cryo-em ribosome reconstituted

• Vespucci: a system for building annotated databases of nascent transcripts.

  PMID 24304890 · PMC3936758 · Nucleic acids research · 2014 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Existing ChIP-seq and RNA-seq analysis platforms (e.g. Cufflinks, peak callers) are unsuited to GRO-seq because they assume spliced/exonic reads, uniform density and paired-end data, and cannot identify transcriptional units de novo across the whole genome.

  thioglycollate-elicited mcf-7 macrophages mm9 gro-seq chip-seq short-read

• Transcription elongation can be sufficient, but is not necessary, to advance replication timing.

  PMID 41876817 · PMC13121604 · EMBO reports · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Transcriptional elongation can causally advance RT in a rate-dependent and context-specific manner

  musculus same tre-ptn mesc repli-seq bru-seq genome-wide

• 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

• Distributed biotin-streptavidin transcription roadblocks for mapping cotranscriptional RNA folding.

  PMID 28398514 · PMC5499547 · Nucleic acids research · 2017 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Randomly distributed biotin–SAv roadblocks in cotranscriptional SHAPE-Seq identify the same RNA structural transitions related to a riboswitch decision-making process as EcoRI E111Q roadblocking

  coli randomly bacillus radiolabeled pellet greb

• 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

• 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

• Dynamic interaction of MYC enhancer RNA with YEATS2 protein regulates MYC gene transcription in pancreatic cancer.

  PMID 40216980 · PMC12117045 · EMBO reports · 2025 · 8 claims · 11 setups

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  MYC eRNAs (notably MYC-490-kb) are transcribed from the MYC super-enhancer and are upregulated by chronic TNF-α stimulation specifically in pancreatic cancer cells, not normal pancreatic epithelial cells

  pdac miapaca-2 chronic myc-490-kb survival chip-seq nascent

• 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

• Control of gene expression during T cell activation: alternate regulation of mRNA transcription and mRNA stability.

  PMID 15907206 · PMC1156890 · BMC genomics · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Regulation of mRNA stability accounts for as much as 50% of all measured changes in polyA mRNA levels, inferred from absence of corresponding nuclear transcription changes.

  jurkat nuclear polya single

• A machine learning approach uncovers principles and determinants of eukaryotic ribosome pausing.

  PMID 39423268 · PMC11488575 · Science advances · 2024 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  An unsupervised ML pipeline using the extended isolation forest (EIF) algorithm can reliably detect ribosome pausing sites from noisy, coverage-biased RiboSeq data across expression levels

  saccharomyces simulated yeast riboseq simulated comparative

• OCT4 enhances the firing efficiency of late DNA replication origins in mouse embryonic stem cells.

  PMID 41540072 · PMC12910074 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  In mESCs, a subset of initiation zones (IZs) mapping to mid or late replication-timing (RT) domains fire within 1-2 hours of S-phase entry, much earlier than expected for their RT classification.

  mescs mefs edu-seq repli-seq western

• The chromatin remodeller CHD4 regulates transcription factor binding to both prevent activation of silent enhancers and maintain active regulatory elements.

  PMID 41632506 · PMC12867480 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CHD4 acts via a second mechanism beyond nucleosome sliding: actively restricting the residence time of transcription factors on chromatin

  chd4-maid sall1 western flow calibrated

• Acetylation of H3K115 is associated with fragile nucleosomes at CpG island promoters and active regulatory sites.

  PMID 41778583 · PMC12959880 · eLife · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  H3K115ac is enriched at the TSS of active CpG island (CGI) promoters, far more than non-CGI promoters

  embryonic mescs synthetic mesc chip-seq atac-seq dot