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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2013

Finding the end: recruitment of telomerase to telomeres.

Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Thomas R Cech

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 213 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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213citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
24.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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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

213 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 366 citations in OpenAlex.

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153 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.

Jayakrishnan NandakumarHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0596, USA.
Thomas R Cech
University of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

TERT Promoter Mutations and Telomerase Reactivation in Cancer CellsR01GM099705 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI CECH, THOMAS ROBERT · 2012 to 2019
$1.4M
Separation-of-function Mutants to Study the Biological Significance of TelomeraseK99CA167644 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI NANDAKUMAR, JAYAKRISHNAN · 2012 to 2012
$90k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS K99 CA167644NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099705
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telomeres, the ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes, are characterized by the presence of multiple repeats of a short DNA sequence. This telomeric DNA is protected from illicit repair by telomere-associated proteins, which in mammals form the shelterin complex. Replicative polymerases are unable to synthesize DNA at the extreme ends of chromosomes, but in unicellular eukaryotes such as yeast and in mammalian germ cells and stem cells, telomere length is maintained by a ribonucleoprotein enzyme known as telomerase. Recent work has provided insights into the mechanisms of telomerase recruitment to telomeres, highlighting the contribution of telomere-associated proteins, including TPP1 in humans, Ccq1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Cdc13 and Ku70-Ku80 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Indexed as

AnimalsChromosomesHumansModels, BiologicalModels, MolecularProtein BindingSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSchizosaccharomycesShelterin ComplexTelomeraseTelomereTelomere-Binding ProteinsACD protein, humanShelterin ComplexTelomeraseTelomere-Binding Proteins

Identifiers

PMID23299958
PMCPMC3805138
OpenAlexW2062671651

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