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ReviewNucleic acids research2006

Post-transcriptional nucleotide modification and alternative folding of RNA.

Mark Helm

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
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Review in Nucleic acids research, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 222 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
222citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

222 citing papers in PubMed, 373 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Archaeal RNA processing and regulation: expanding the functional landscape.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025
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  13. The Landscape of tRNA Modifications in Archaea.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  17. Roles and mechanisms of NSUN2-mediated RNA mFrontiers in immunology · 2025
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  18. ncRNA Editing: Functional Characterization and Computational Resources.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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162 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

  • Erratum issued
5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mark HelmDepartment of Chemistry, Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany. mark.helm@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Heidelberg University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alternative foldings are an inherent property of RNA and a ubiquitous problem in scientific investigations. To a living organism, alternative foldings can be a blessing or a problem, and so nature has found both, ways to harness this property and ways to avoid the drawbacks. A simple and effective method employed by nature to avoid unwanted folding is the modulation of conformation space through post-transcriptional base modification. Modified nucleotides occur in almost all classes of natural RNAs in great chemical diversity. There are about 100 different base modifications known, which may perform a plethora of functions. The presumably most ancient and simple nucleotide modifications, such as methylations and uridine isomerization, are able to perform structural tasks on the most basic level, namely by blocking or reinforcing single base-pairs or even single hydrogen bonds in RNA. In this paper, functional, genomic and structural evidence on cases of folding space alteration by post-transcriptional modifications in native RNA are reviewed.

Indexed as

RNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalBase SequenceMethylationMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationNucleotidesRNARNA, TransferNucleotidesRNARNA, Transfer

Identifiers

PMID16452298
PMCPMC1360285
OpenAlexW2104930084

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