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Altered ribostasis: RNA-protein granules in degenerative disorders.

Mani Ramaswami, J Paul Taylor, Roy Parker

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Review in Cell, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 398 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
398citing papers in PubMed
23.3field-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

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

398 citing papers in PubMed, 625 citations in OpenAlex.

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338 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mani RamaswamiSchool of Genetics and Microbiology and School of Natural Sciences, Smurfit Institute of Genetics and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. mani.ramaswami@tcd.ie
J Paul Taylor
Roy Parker
Trinity College Dublin · IEUniversity of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

Pathways of Neurodegeneration in SBMAR01NS053825 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI TAYLOR, JOSEPH PAUL · 2006 to 2015
$3.5M
Stress Granules in Yeast and MammalsR01GM045443 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI PARKER, ROY · 1991 to 2021
$3.3M
mRNA Decapping in YeastR37GM045443 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI PARKER, ROY · 2004 to 2013
$3.1M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS GM045443NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM045443NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM045443NINDS NIH HHS NS053825NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS053825
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The molecular processes that contribute to degenerative diseases are not well understood. Recent observations suggest that some degenerative diseases are promoted by the accumulation of nuclear or cytoplasmic RNA-protein (RNP) aggregates, which can be related to endogenous RNP granules. RNP aggregates arise commonly in degenerative diseases because RNA-binding proteins commonly self-assemble, in part through prion-like domains, which can form self-propagating amyloids. RNP aggregates may be toxic due to multiple perturbations of posttranscriptional control, thereby disrupting the normal "ribostasis" of the cell. This suggests that understanding and modulating RNP assembly or clearance may be effective approaches to developing therapies for these diseases.

Indexed as

AnimalsCytoplasmic GranulesHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesProtein FoldingRibonucleoproteinsRNARibonucleoproteinsRNA

Identifiers

PMID23953108
PMCPMC3811119
OpenAlexW2065139981

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Registered trials

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