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ReviewChemistry & biology2014

Posttranscriptional RNA Modifications: playing metabolic games in a cell's chemical Legoland.

Mark Helm, Juan D Alfonzo

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Review in Chemistry & biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 133 papers.

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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

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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

133 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. The Molecular Basis of Human ALKBH3 Mediated RNA NAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2024
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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.

Mark HelmInstitute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Staudingerweg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany. Electronic address: mhelm@uni-mainz.de.
Juan D AlfonzoDepartment of Microbiology and The Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Electronic address: alfonzo.1@osu.edu.

Funding

tRNA editing by deamination: Balancing affinity and specifictyR01GM084065 · NIGMS · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ALFONZO, JUAN D · 2008 to 2021
$4.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM084065-05NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084065
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nature combines existing biochemical building blocks, at times with subtlety of purpose. RNA modifications are a prime example of this, where standard RNA nucleosides are decorated with chemical groups and building blocks that we recall from our basic biochemistry lectures. The result: a wealth of chemical diversity whose full biological relevance has remained elusive despite being public knowledge for some time. Here, we highlight several modifications that, because of their chemical intricacy, rely on seemingly unrelated pathways to provide cofactors for their synthesis. Besides their immediate role in affecting RNA function, modifications may act as sensors and transducers of information that connect a cell's metabolic state to its translational output, carefully orchestrating a delicate balance between metabolic rate and protein synthesis at a system's level.

Indexed as

AnticodonBacteriaEukaryotic CellsMetabolic Networks and PathwaysNucleic Acid ConformationRNARNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalRNA, TransferUridineAnticodonRNARNA, TransferUridine

Identifiers

PMID24315934
PMCPMC3944000

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