Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22196729›Full record

ArticleCell2011

Conserved function of lincRNAs in vertebrate embryonic development despite rapid sequence evolution.

Igor Ulitsky, Alena Shkumatava, Calvin H Jan, Hazel Sive, David P Bartel

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Article in Cell, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 698 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
698citing papers in PubMed
24.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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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

698 citing papers in PubMed, 1,227 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

  • Erratum issued
5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Igor UlitskyWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Alena Shkumatava
Calvin H Jan
Hazel Sive
David P Bartel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

MicroRNA genes and their functionsR01GM067031 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI BARTEL, DAVID P · 2002 to 2015
$7.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM067031NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067031Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thousands of long intervening noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) have been identified in mammals. To better understand the evolution and functions of these enigmatic RNAs, we used chromatin marks, poly(A)-site mapping and RNA-Seq data to identify more than 550 distinct lincRNAs in zebrafish. Although these shared many characteristics with mammalian lincRNAs, only 29 had detectable sequence similarity with putative mammalian orthologs, typically restricted to a single short region of high conservation. Other lincRNAs had conserved genomic locations without detectable sequence conservation. Antisense reagents targeting conserved regions of two zebrafish lincRNAs caused developmental defects. Reagents targeting splice sites caused the same defects and were rescued by adding either the mature lincRNA or its human or mouse ortholog. Our study provides a roadmap for identification and analysis of lincRNAs in model organisms and shows that lincRNAs play crucial biological roles during embryonic development with functionality conserved despite limited sequence conservation.

Indexed as

Embryonic DevelopmentEvolution, MolecularAnimalsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansMiceRNA, UntranslatedVertebratesZebrafishRNA, Untranslated

Identifiers

PMID22196729
PMCPMC3376356
OpenAlexW2156880688

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