Everything about Zac

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ZacA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Evolutionary conservation of Zinc-Activated Channel (ZAC) functionality in mammals: a range of mammalian ZACs assemble into cell surface-expressed functional receptorsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: ExcursionsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The cell cycle control gene ZAC/PLAGL1 is imprinted--a strong candidate gene for transient neonatal diabetesCited 180 times
5. Go sideways: ZacharyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Zachary SmithA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The cell cycle control gene ZAC/PLAGL1 is imprinted--a strong candidate gene for transient neonatal diabetes

  M. Kamiya · 2000 · Human Molecular Genetics · 180 citations

• ZAC, LIT1 (KCNQ1OT1) and p57KIP2 (CDKN1C) are in an imprinted gene network that may play a role in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome

  T. Arima · 2005 · Nucleic Acids Research · 114 citations

• A conserved imprinting control region at the HYMAI/ZAC domain is implicated in transient neonatal diabetes mellitus

  T. Arima · 2001 · Human Molecular Genetics · 90 citations

• Loss of expression of the candidate tumor suppressor gene ZAC in breast cancer cell lines and primary tumors

  Benoit Bilanges, Annie Varrault, Eugenia Basyuk · 1999 · Oncogene · 78 citations

• Quantitative Reasoning and the Sine Function: The Case of Zac

  Kevin C. Moore · 2014 · Journal for Research in Mathematics Education · 76 citations

• A Novel Imprinted Gene, HYMAI, Is Located within an Imprinted Domain on Human Chromosome 6 Containing ZAC

  Takahiro Arima, Robert A. Drewell, Mitsuo Oshimura · 2000 · Genomics · 64 citations

• Epigenetic silencing of the imprinted gene ZAC by DNA methylation is an early event in the progression of human ovarian cancer

  Tetsuya Kamikihara, Takahiro Arima, Kiyoko Kato · 2005 · International Journal of Cancer · 64 citations

• Transcriptional Activities of the Zinc Finger Protein Zac Are Differentially Controlled by DNA Binding

  Anke Hoffmann, Elisabetta Ciani, Joel Boeckardt · 2003 · Molecular and Cellular Biology · 63 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Evolutionary conservation of Zinc-Activated Channel (ZAC) functionality in mammals: a range of mammalian ZACs assemble into cell surface-expressed functional receptors

  Anders A. Jensen · 2023 · Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences · 6 citations

• Cryo-EM structure of the zinc-activated channel (ZAC) in the Cys-loop receptor superfamily

  Fei Jin, Yi-Yu Lin, Ru-Chun Wang · 2024 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 6 citations

• S-ZAC: Hardening Access Control of Service Mesh Using Intel SGX for Zero Trust in Cloud

  Changhee Han, Taehun Kim, Woomin Lee · 2024 · Electronics · 5 citations

• Challenging the Romance of the Techno/Metropolis: The Social Critique of the ‘City’ in Zac O’Yeah’s Crime Trilogy

  Somdatta Bhattacharya, Navami T. S. · 2022 · Society and Culture in South Asia · 2 citations

• Copper–titanium decorated ternary interwoven network ZAC@CuO/TiO2@CNT as an efficient cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cells

  Xuan Yang, Cheng Li, Cong Li · 2026 · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• ExcursionsMargherita Cumino · 1997
• Working FireZac Unger · 2004
• Night RaidH. I. Larry, Ash Oswald · 2007
• Horror HouseH. I. Larry, Ron Monnier · 2015
• Deep watersH. I. Larry · 2007
• Tomb of doomH. I. Larry · 2010
• Volcanic panicH. I. Larry · 2014
• BlockbusterH. I. Larry · 2012

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