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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA

Transfer RNA modifications: nature's combinatorial chemistry playground.

Jane E Jackman, Juan D Alfonzo

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 215 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
215citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

215 citing papers in PubMed, 317 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Integrating mass spectrometry with Nanopore direct RNA sequencing forbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. RNase 4 improves bottom-up modification mapping ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  10. Pseudouridylation landscape across 42bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  17. The Landscape of tRNA Modifications in Archaea.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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155 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Jane E JackmanThe Ohio State Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. jackman.14@osu.edu
Juan D Alfonzo
The Ohio State University · US

Funding

tRNA editing by deamination: Balancing affinity and specifictyR01GM084065 · NIGMS · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ALFONZO, JUAN D · 2008 to 2021
$4.0M
Molecular Mechanism and Biological Function of 3'-5' PolymerasesR01GM087543 · NIGMS · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JACKMAN, JANE ELIZABETH · 2010 to 2019
$2.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084065NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM087543NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM087543
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following synthesis, tRNAs are peppered by numerous chemical modifications which may differentially affect a tRNA's structure and function. Although modifications affecting the business ends of a tRNA are predictably important for cell viability, a majority of modifications play more subtle structural roles that can affect tRNA stability and folding. The current trend is that modifications act in concert and it is in the context of the specific sequence of a given tRNA that they impart their differing effects. Recent developments in the modification field have highlighted the diversity of modifications in tRNA. From these, the combinatorial nature of modifications in explaining previously described phenotypes derived from their absence has emerged as a growing theme.

Indexed as

RNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalRNA, TransferHumansProtein BiosynthesisStructure-Activity RelationshipRNA, Transfer

Identifiers

PMID23139145
PMCPMC3680101
OpenAlexW2050839209

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