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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2011

Architecture of human telomerase RNA.

Qi Zhang, Nak-Kyoon Kim, Juli Feigon

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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88citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

88 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 155 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Biogenesis and Regulation of Telomerase during Development and Cancer.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2026
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  4. A (Scientific) Lifetime Affair With Nucleic Acids.Journal of molecular biology · 2025
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  8. Giardia telomeres and telomerase.Parasitology research · 2024
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  15. CRISPR-based mFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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  17. Telomerase structural biology comes of age.Current opinion in structural biology · 2022
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28 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qi ZhangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA.
Nak-Kyoon Kim
Juli Feigon
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

STRUCTURE OF TELOMERIC DNA OLIGONUCLEOTIDESR01GM048123 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FEIGON, JULI · 1992 to 2018
$6.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM048123
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telomerase is a unique reverse transcriptase that catalyzes the addition of telomere DNA repeats onto the 3' ends of linear chromosomes and plays a critical role in maintaining genome stability. Unlike other reverse transcriptases, telomerase is unique in that it is a ribonucleoprotein complex, where the RNA component [telomerase RNA (TR)] not only provides the template for the synthesis of telomere DNA repeats but also plays essential roles in catalysis, accumulation, TR 3'-end processing, localization, and holoenzyme assembly. Biochemical studies have identified TR elements essential for catalysis that share remarkably conserved secondary structures across different species as well as species-specific domains for other functions, paving the way for high-resolution structure determination of TRs. Over the past decade, structures of key elements from the core, conserved regions 4 and 5, and small Cajal body specific RNA domains of human TR have emerged, providing significant insights into the roles of these RNA elements in telomerase function. Structures of all helical elements of the core domain have been recently reported, providing the basis for a high-resolution model of the complete core domain. We review this progress to determine the overall architecture of human telomerase RNA.

Indexed as

Base SequenceCatalysisCoiled BodiesDNAHumansMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiaryRibonucleoproteinsRNATelomeraseDNARibonucleoproteinsRNATelomerasetelomerase RNA

Identifiers

PMID21844345
PMCPMC3251123
OpenAlexW2136440665

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