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ReviewEMBO reports2001

Characteristics of post-transcriptional gene silencing.

A Chicas, G Macino

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Review in EMBO reports, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Transgenic Mouse Models in Cancer Research.Frontiers in oncology · 2018
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  18. RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2002
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  20. High molecular weight RNAs and small interfering RNAs induce systemic posttranscriptional gene silencing in plants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2002
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

A ChicasDipartimento di Biotecnologie Cellulari ed Ematologia, Sezione di Genetica Molecolare, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Viale Regina Elena 324, 00161 Rome, Italy.
G Macino
Sapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A number of gene silencing phenomena that inactivate genes at the post-transcriptional level have been identified. Due to its potential for studying gene function, post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) has become an intense area of research. In this review we describe the different means of inducing PTGS and discuss the possible biological roles of these artificially induced phenomena. We also discuss other features of PTGS such as the mechanism of mRNA degradation, the nature of the silencing signal and the mechanism of PTGS inhibition by viral proteins.

Indexed as

Gene SilencingRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalAnimalsGenes, ViralModels, BiologicalPhenotypePlantsRNA, MessengerRNA, ViralRNA, MessengerRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID11713190
PMCPMC1084130
OpenAlexW2154415817

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