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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2009

Model systems: how chemical biologists study RNA.

Andro C Rios, Yitzhak Tor

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Site-specific platinum(II) cross-linking in a ribozyme active site.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2012
    Article
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.

Andro C RiosDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
Yitzhak Tor
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

Fluorescent Nucleosides and OligonucleotidesR01GM069773 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI TOR, YITZHAK · 2004 to 2020
$5.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM069773NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM069773
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ribonucleic acids are structurally and functionally sophisticated biomolecules and the use of models, frequently truncated or modified sequences representing functional domains of the natural systems, is essential to their exploration. Functional noncoding RNAs such as miRNAs, riboswitches, and, in particular, ribozymes, have changed the view of RNA's role in biology and its catalytic potential. The well-known truncated hammerhead model has recently been refined and new data provide a clearer molecular picture of the elements responsible for its catalytic power. A model for the spliceosome, a massive and highly intricate ribonucleoprotein, is also emerging, although its true utility is yet to be cemented. Such catalytic model systems could also serve as 'chemo-paleontological' tools, further refining the RNA world hypothesis and its relevance to the origin and evolution of life.

Indexed as

AnimalsBase SequenceBiologyEvolution, ChemicalHumansMolecular Sequence DataRibonucleoproteinsRNARNA, CatalyticSpliceosomeshammerhead ribozymeRibonucleoproteinsRNARNA, Catalytic

Identifiers

PMID19879179
PMCPMC2787688
OpenAlexW2011252846

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