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ReviewBiochemical Society transactions2010

Maintaining a sense of direction during long-range communication on DNA.

Mark D Szczelkun, Peter Friedhoff, Ralf Seidel

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Review in Biochemical Society transactions, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mark D SzczelkunDNA-Protein Interactions Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK. mark.szczelkun@bristol.ac.uk
Peter Friedhoff
Ralf Seidel
TU Dresden · DEUniversity of Giessen · DE

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many biological processes rely on the interaction of proteins with multiple DNA sites separated by thousands of base pairs. These long-range communication events can be driven by both the thermal motions of proteins and DNA, and directional protein motions that are rectified by ATP hydrolysis. The present review describes conflicting experiments that have sought to explain how the ATP-dependent Type III restriction-modification enzymes can cut DNA with two sites in an inverted repeat, but not DNA with two sites in direct repeat. We suggest that an ATPase activity may not automatically indicate a DNA translocase, but can alternatively indicate a molecular switch that triggers communication by thermally driven DNA sliding. The generality of this mechanism to other ATP-dependent communication processes such as mismatch repair is also discussed.

Indexed as

Base SequenceBinding SitesDeoxyribonucleases, Type III Site-SpecificDNADNA HelicasesHumansModels, BiologicalMovementNucleic Acid ConformationProtein BindingProtein Structure, TertiarySubstrate SpecificityDeoxyribonucleases, Type III Site-SpecificDNADNA Helicases

Identifiers

PMID20298192
PMCPMC2860699
OpenAlexW2057556482

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