Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20705859›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2010

An allosteric self-splicing ribozyme triggered by a bacterial second messenger.

Elaine R Lee, Jenny L Baker, Zasha Weinberg, Narasimhan Sudarsan, Ronald R Breaker

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 187 papers.

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187citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

187 citing papers in PubMed, 341 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elaine R Lee *Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA.
Jenny L Baker *Department of Chemistry, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA.
Zasha WeinbergDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA.
Narasimhan SudarsanDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA.
Ronald R BreakerDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USYale University · US

Funding

X-RAY ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONP01GM022778 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BREAKER, RONALD R · 1985 to 2019
$26.1M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM022778
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Group I self-splicing ribozymes commonly function as components of selfish mobile genetic elements. We identified an allosteric group I ribozyme, wherein self-splicing is regulated by a distinct riboswitch class that senses the bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP. The tandem RNA sensory system resides in the 5' untranslated region of the messenger RNA for a putative virulence gene in the pathogenic bacterium Clostridium difficile. c-di-GMP binding by the riboswitch induces folding changes at atypical splice site junctions to modulate alternative RNA processing. Our findings indicate that some self-splicing ribozymes are not selfish elements but are harnessed by cells as metabolite sensors and genetic regulators.

Indexed as

Regulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic AcidRNA SplicingSecond Messenger Systems5' Untranslated RegionsAptamers, NucleotideBase PairingBase SequenceClostridioides difficileCodon, InitiatorCyclic GMPExonsGenes, BacterialGuanosine TriphosphateMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationRNA, Bacterial5' Untranslated RegionsAptamers, Nucleotidebis(3',5')-cyclic diguanylic acidCodon, InitiatorCyclic GMPGIR1 ribozymeGuanosine TriphosphateRegulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic AcidRNA, BacterialRNA, CatalyticRNA, Messenger

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PMID20705859
PMCPMC4538695
OpenAlexW1994028292

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