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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA

RNA decay modulates gene expression and controls its fidelity.

Shubhendu Ghosh, Allan Jacobson

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Transcriptome-Wide Profiling of RNA Stability.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shubhendu GhoshDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655-0122, USA.
Allan Jacobson
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

Messenger RNA Metabolism in YeastR37GM027757 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI JACOBSON, ALLAN S · 2005 to 2014
$6.3M
MESSENGER RNA METABOLISM IN YEASTR01GM027757 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI JACOBSON, ALLAN S · 1985 to 2016
$3.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM027757NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM027757NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM27757
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maintenance of cellular function relies on the expression of genetic information with high fidelity, a process in which RNA molecules form an important link. mRNAs are intermediates that define the proteome, rRNAs and tRNAs are effector molecules that act together to decode mRNA sequence information, and small noncoding RNAs can regulate mRNA half-life and translatability. The steady-state levels of these RNAs occur through transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms, of which RNA decay pathways are integral components. RNA decay can initiate from the ends of a transcript or through endonucleolytic cleavage, and numerous factors that catalyze or promote these reactions have been identified and characterized. The rate at which decay occurs depends on RNA sequence or structural elements and usually requires the RNA to be modified in a way that allows recruitment of the decay machinery to the transcript through the binding of accessory factors or small RNAs. The major RNA decay pathways also play important roles in the quality control (QC) of gene expression. Acting in both the nucleus and cytoplasm, multiple QC factors monitor newly synthesized transcripts, or mRNAs undergoing translation, for properties essential to function, including structural integrity or the presence of complete open-reading frames. Transcripts targeted by these surveillance mechanisms are rapidly shunted into conventional decay pathways where they are degraded rapidly to ensure that they do not interfere with the normal course of gene expression. Collectively, degradative mechanisms are important determinants of the extent of gene expression and play key roles in maintaining its accuracy.

Indexed as

AnimalsGene ExpressionHumansModels, BiologicalProtein BindingProtein BiosynthesisQuality ControlRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA StabilityTranscription, GeneticRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, Messengerclosed-loop mRNPcytoplasmic RNA decaydecappingexonucleolytic digestionexosomeNMDnuclear RNA decayP bodiesRNA half-lifeRNA quality controlstability and instability elements

Identifiers

PMID21132108
PMCPMC2994362
OpenAlexW2117759290

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Registered trials

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