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ReviewMolecular cell2007

Ribozyme catalysis revisited: is water involved?

Nils G Walter

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Review in Molecular cell, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Cellular Small Molecules Contribute to Twister Ribozyme Catalysis.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2018
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  4. Unwinding the twister ribozyme: from structure to mechanism.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA · 2017
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  9. Water-assisted proton transfer in ferredoxin I.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2011
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  11. Oligomeric nucleic acids as antivirals.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2011
    Review
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nils G WalterDepartment of Chemistry, Single Molecule Analysis Group, University of Michigan, 930 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48019-1055, USA. nwalter@umich.edu
Analysis Group (United States) · US

Funding

U-turn of the Hepatitis Delta Virus RibozymeR01GM062357 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WALTER, NILS G · 2001 to 2019
$5.8M
Real-time Fluorescence Imaging of RNA/Ribosome DynamicsR01GM037006 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MORRIS, MICHAEL DAVID · 1986 to 2009
$1.5M
Trekking with the Ribognome: Single Molecule Microscopy of Intracellular miRNPsR01GM081025 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WALTER, NILS G · 2007 to 2010
$998k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM037006NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM062357NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM081025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enzymatic catalysis by RNA was discovered 25 years ago, yet mechanistic insights are emerging only slowly. Thought to be metalloenzymes at first, some ribozymes proved more versatile than anticipated when shown to utilize their own functional groups for catalysis. Recent evidence suggests that some may also judiciously place structural water molecules to shuttle protons in acid-base catalyzed reactions.

Indexed as

CatalysisModels, MolecularMolecular StructureNucleic Acid ConformationProtonsRNARNA, CatalyticWaterProtonsRNARNA, CatalyticWater

Identifiers

PMID18158891
PMCPMC2575846
OpenAlexW1972519138

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