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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2011

Spliceosome structure and function.

Cindy L Will, Reinhard Lührmann

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 965 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

965 citing papers in PubMed, 1,802 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cindy L WillMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Reinhard Lührmann
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pre-mRNA splicing is catalyzed by the spliceosome, a multimegadalton ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex comprised of five snRNPs and numerous proteins. Intricate RNA-RNA and RNP networks, which serve to align the reactive groups of the pre-mRNA for catalysis, are formed and repeatedly rearranged during spliceosome assembly and catalysis. Both the conformation and composition of the spliceosome are highly dynamic, affording the splicing machinery its accuracy and flexibility, and these remarkable dynamics are largely conserved between yeast and metazoans. Because of its dynamic and complex nature, obtaining structural information about the spliceosome represents a major challenge. Electron microscopy has revealed the general morphology of several spliceosomal complexes and their snRNP subunits, and also the spatial arrangement of some of their components. X-ray and NMR studies have provided high resolution structure information about spliceosomal proteins alone or complexed with one or more binding partners. The extensive interplay of RNA and proteins in aligning the pre-mRNA's reactive groups, and the presence of both RNA and protein at the core of the splicing machinery, suggest that the spliceosome is an RNP enzyme. However, elucidation of the precise nature of the spliceosome's active site, awaits the generation of a high-resolution structure of its RNP core.

Indexed as

Catalytic DomainCrystallography, X-RayHumansModels, GeneticModels, MolecularNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularNucleic Acid ConformationProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalProtein Structure, TertiaryRibonucleoproteinsRibonucleoproteins, Small NuclearRNA PrecursorsRNA SplicingSpliceosomesRibonucleoproteinsRibonucleoproteins, Small NuclearRNA Precursors

Identifiers

PMID21441581
PMCPMC3119917
OpenAlexW2148393113

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