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ReviewVirus research2009

Frameshifting RNA pseudoknots: structure and mechanism.

David P Giedroc, Peter V Cornish

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Review in Virus research, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 184 papers.

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184citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

184 citing papers in PubMed, 303 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Structural switching dynamically controls the doubly pseudoknotted Rous sarcoma virus-programmed ribosomal frameshifting element.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  15. Ribosomal frameshifting selectively modulates the assembly, function, and pharmacological rescue of a misfolded CFTR variant.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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124 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David P GiedrocDepartment of Chemistry, Indiana University, 212 S. Hawthorne Drive, Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, USA. giedroc@indiana.edu
Peter V Cornish
Indiana University Bloomington · USUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

Novel RNA Structures in Coronavirus ReplicationR01AI067416 · NIAID · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI GIEDROC, DAVID P., LEIBOWITZ, JULIAN L · 2008 to 2012
$1.8M
STRUCTURE, STABILITY AND DYNAMICS OF RNA PSEUDOKNOTSR01AI040187 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI GIEDROC, DAVID P. · 1996 to 2006
$1.7M
NIAID NIH HHS AI040184NIAID NIH HHS AI067416NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI040187NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI067416
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) is one of the multiple translational recoding processes that fundamentally alters triplet decoding of the messenger RNA by the elongating ribosome. The ability of the ribosome to change translational reading frames in the -1 direction (-1 PRF) is employed by many positive strand RNA viruses, including economically important plant viruses and many human pathogens, such as retroviruses, e.g., HIV-1, and coronaviruses, e.g., the causative agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), in order to properly express their genomes. -1 PRF is programmed by a bipartite signal embedded in the mRNA and includes a heptanucleotide "slip site" over which the paused ribosome "backs up" by one nucleotide, and a downstream stimulatory element, either an RNA pseudoknot or a very stable RNA stem-loop. These two elements are separated by six to eight nucleotides, a distance that places the 5' edge of the downstream stimulatory element in direct contact with the mRNA entry channel of the 30S ribosomal subunit. The precise mechanism by which the downstream RNA stimulates -1 PRF by the translocating ribosome remains unclear. This review summarizes the recent structural and biophysical studies of RNA pseudoknots and places this work in the context of our evolving mechanistic understanding of translation elongation. Support for the hypothesis that the downstream stimulatory element provides a kinetic barrier to the ribosome-mediated unfolding is discussed.

Indexed as

Frameshifting, RibosomalNucleic Acid ConformationModels, MolecularPeptide Chain Elongation, TranslationalRNA, MessengerRNA, ViralRNA VirusesRNA, MessengerRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID18621088
PMCPMC2670756
OpenAlexW2122996035

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