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ReviewRNA biology

Function of a retrotransposon nucleocapsid protein.

Suzanne B Sandmeyer, Kristina A Clemens

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Review in RNA biology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 32 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Suzanne B SandmeyerDepartment of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA USA. sbsandme@uci.edu
Kristina A Clemens
University of California, Irvine · US

Funding

Ty3 Viruslike Particle Morphogenesis and Host InteractionsR01GM033281 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI SANDMEYER, SUZANNE · 1985 to 2013
$4.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM33281NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM033281
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are not only the ancient predecessors of retroviruses, but they constitute significant fractions of the genomes of many eukaryotic species. Studies of their structure and function are motivated by opportunities to gain insight into common functions of retroviruses and retrotransposons, diverse mechanisms of intracellular genomic mobility, and host factors that diminish or enhance retrotransposition. This review focuses on the nucleocapsid (NC) protein of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae LTR retrotransposon, the metavirus, Ty3. Retrovirus NC promotes genomic (g)RNA dimerization and packaging, tRNA primer annealing, reverse transcription strand transfers, and host protein interactions with gRNA. Studies of Ty3 NC have revealed key roles for Ty3 NC in formation of retroelement assembly sites (retrosomes), and in chaperoning primer tRNA to both dimerize and circularize Ty3 gRNA. We speculate that Ty3 NC, together with P-body and stress-granule proteins, plays a role in transitioning Ty3 RNA from translation template to gRNA, and that interactions between the acidic spacer domain of Ty3 Gag3 and the adjacent basic NC domain control condensation of the virus-like particle.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansNucleocapsid ProteinsProtein BindingRetroelementsRetroviridaeReverse TranscriptionTerminal Repeat SequencesVirus AssemblyNucleocapsid ProteinsRetroelements

Identifiers

PMID21189452
PMCPMC3073325
OpenAlexW1976539988

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