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ArticleCell reports2012

Conservation of a triple-helix-forming RNA stability element in noncoding and genomic RNAs of diverse viruses.

Kazimierz T Tycowski, Mei-Di Shu, Sumit Borah, Mary Shi, Joan A Steitz

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Article in Cell reports, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kazimierz T TycowskiDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536, USA.
Mei-Di Shu
Sumit Borah
Mary Shi
Joan A Steitz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USYale University · US

Funding

VIRAL SMALL RNPS--ROLES IN CELL TRANSFORMATIONP01CA016038 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI DIMAIO, DANIEL C. · 1985 to 2020
$25.6M
Vertebrate Non-Coding RNPs: Integrating function, biogenesis and survivalR01GM026154 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI STEITZ, JOAN A. · 1985 to 2014
$4.0M
AUTOANTIBODY PROBES FOR MAMMALIAN GENE EXPRESSIONR37GM026154 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI STEITZ, JOAN A. · 1989 to 1998
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Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS CA16038NCI NIH HHS P01 CA016038NIGMS NIH HHS GM026154NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM026154
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Abundant expression of the long noncoding (lnc) PAN (polyadenylated nuclear) RNA by the human oncogenic gammaherpesvirus Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) depends on a cis-element called the expression and nuclear retention element (ENE). The ENE upregulates PAN RNA by inhibiting its rapid nuclear decay through triple-helix formation with the poly(A) tail. Using structure-based bioinformatics, we identified six ENE-like elements in evolutionarily diverse viral genomes. Five are in double-stranded DNA viruses, including mammalian herpesviruses, insect polydnaviruses, and a protist mimivirus. One is in an insect picorna-like positive-strand RNA virus, suggesting that the ENE can counteract cytoplasmic as well as nuclear RNA decay pathways. Functionality of four of the ENEs was demonstrated by increased accumulation of an intronless polyadenylated reporter transcript in human cells. Identification of these ENEs enabled the discovery of PAN RNA homologs in two additional gammaherpesviruses, RRV and EHV2. Our findings demonstrate that searching for structural elements can lead to rapid identification of lncRNAs.

Indexed as

Conserved SequenceNucleic Acid ConformationRNA, UntranslatedBase SequenceCell NucleusGenome, ViralHEK293 CellsHumansModels, BiologicalMolecular Sequence DataRegulatory Elements, TranscriptionalRNA, MessengerRNA StabilityRNA VirusesRNA, MessengerRNA, Untranslated

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PMID22840393
PMCPMC3430378
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