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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2011

Ribonuclease P.

Sidney Altman

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
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

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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Coevolution of RNase P and the ribosome.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. Emerging biological functions of ribonuclease 1 and angiogenin.Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology · 2022
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  8. Interstrand Aminoacyl Transfer in a tRNA Acceptor Stem-Overhang Mimic.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021
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  9. Viroids and the Origin of Life.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  12. Identified Hybrid tRNA Structure Genes in Archaeal Genome.Iranian journal of biotechnology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sidney AltmanDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. sidney.altman@yale.edu
Yale University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gene coding for the RNA subunit of ribonuclease P (RNase P) is essential in all free-living organisms. The RNA subunit, itself, is an enzyme and, from its evolutionary tree, we can infer that it is a very ancient molecule. The specificity of this enzyme is that it cleaves other RNA molecules at the junction of single-stranded and the 5' end of double-stranded regions of RNA. One can speculate that this molecule was very useful in an ancient world in cleaving long pieces of RNA, which must have contained hairpin regions in it, into shorter molecules with the capability of different functions from the longer parent. Today, the specificity of the enzyme can be used in designing drug therapies.

Indexed as

Genes, BacterialBacillusCatalysisEscherichia coliEvolution, MolecularGene SilencingNucleic Acid ConformationOperonRibonuclease PRNARNA CleavageRNA PrecursorsSubstrate SpecificityRibonuclease PRNARNA Precursors

Identifiers

PMID21930585
PMCPMC3158923
OpenAlexW4236706228

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