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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2012

The structure and function of the eukaryotic ribosome.

Daniel N Wilson, Jamie H Doudna Cate

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 179 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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179citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

179 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 459 citations in OpenAlex.

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119 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Daniel N WilsonCenter for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Germany. wilson@lmb.uni-muenchen.de
Jamie H Doudna Cate
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · USLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

HCV IRES Control of Human Translational InitiationR56AI095687 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI DOUDNA, JENNIFER A · 2011 to 2011
$627k
NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI095687NIAID NIH HHS R56-AI095687
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structures of the bacterial ribosome have provided a framework for understanding universal mechanisms of protein synthesis. However, the eukaryotic ribosome is much larger than it is in bacteria, and its activity is fundamentally different in many key ways. Recent cryo-electron microscopy reconstructions and X-ray crystal structures of eukaryotic ribosomes and ribosomal subunits now provide an unprecedented opportunity to explore mechanisms of eukaryotic translation and its regulation in atomic detail. This review describes the X-ray crystal structures of the Tetrahymena thermophila 40S and 60S subunits and the Saccharomyces cerevisiae 80S ribosome, as well as cryo-electron microscopy reconstructions of translating yeast and plant 80S ribosomes. Mechanistic questions about translation in eukaryotes that will require additional structural insights to be resolved are also presented.

Indexed as

Models, MolecularBinding SitesCryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayEukaryotic CellsPlantsProtein BiosynthesisRibosomal ProteinsRibosomesRibosome SubunitsRNA, RibosomalSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSpecies SpecificityTetrahymena thermophilaYeastsRibosomal ProteinsRNA, Ribosomal

Identifiers

PMID22550233
PMCPMC3331703
OpenAlexW2154356903

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