Regulation of gene expression and cellular proliferation by histone H2A.ZThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue, entitled CSBMCB’s 51st Annual Meeting – Epigenetics and Chromatin Dynamics, and has undergone the Journal’s usual peer review process.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The mammalian genome is organized into a structure of DNA and proteins known as chromatin. In general, chromatin presents a barrier to gene expression that is regulated by several pathways, namely by the incorporation of histone variants into the nucleosome. In yeast, H2A.Z is an H2A histone variant that is incorporated into nucleosomes as an H2A.Z/H2B dimer by the Swr1 complex and by the SRCAP and p400/Tip60 complexes in mammalian cells. H2A.Z has been associated with the poising of genes for transcriptional activation in the yeast model system, and is essential for development in higher eukaryotes. Recent studies in our laboratory have demonstrated a p400-dependent deposition of H2A.Z at the promoter of p21WAF1/CIP1, a consequence that prevents the activation of the gene by p53, thereby inhibiting p53-dependent replicative senescence, a form of cell-cycle arrest crucial in the prevention of carcinogenic transformation of cells. Moreover, H2A.Z is overexpressed in several different types of cancers, and its overexpression has been associated functionally with the proliferation state of cells. Therefore, we suggest that H2A.Z is an important regulator of gene expression, and its deregulation may lead to the increased proliferation of mammalian cells.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".