Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18638512›Full record

ReviewVirus research2009

Structure and function of HCV IRES domains.

Peter J Lukavsky

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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 120 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
120citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

120 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 191 citations in OpenAlex.

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60 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Peter J LukavskyLaboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. pjl@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105170649
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The HCV IRES is a highly structured RNA which mediates cap-independent translation initiation in higher eukaryotes. This function is encoded in conserved structural motifs in the two major domains of HCV and HCV-like IRESs, which play crucial and distinct roles along the initiation pathway. In this review, I discuss structural features of IRES domains and how these RNA motifs function as RNA-based initiation factors to form 48S initiation complexes and 80S ribosomes with only a subset of canonical, protein-based eukaryotic initiation factors.

Indexed as

Nucleic Acid ConformationEukaryotic Initiation Factor-3HepacivirusPeptide Chain Initiation, TranslationalPeptide Initiation FactorsRibosomesRNA, ViralEukaryotic Initiation Factor-3Peptide Initiation FactorsRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID18638512
PMCPMC2726286
OpenAlexW2019943197

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