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ReviewRNA biology2014

Pseudouridine: still mysterious, but never a fake (uridine)!

Felix Spenkuch, Yuri Motorin, Mark Helm

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Review in RNA biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
131citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

131 citing papers in PubMed, 203 citations in OpenAlex.

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71 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 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Felix Spenkucha Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry ; Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz ; Mainz , Germany.
Yuri Motorin
Mark Helm
Délégation Centre-Est · FRJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEResearch Institute for Pharmacy and Biochemistry (Czechia) · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseudouridine (Ψ) is the most abundant of >150 nucleoside modifications in RNA. Although Ψ was discovered as the first modified nucleoside more than half a century ago, neither the enzymatic mechanism of its formation, nor the function of this modification are fully elucidated. We present the consistent picture of Ψ synthases, their substrates and their substrate positions in model organisms of all domains of life as it has emerged to date and point out the challenges that remain concerning higher eukaryotes and the elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism.

Indexed as

RNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalEscherichia coliHumansIntramolecular TransferasesIsoenzymesNucleic Acid ConformationPseudouridineRibonucleoproteins, Small NuclearRibosomesRNARNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, MitochondrialRNA, RibosomalRNA, Transfer, Amino Acid-SpecificSaccharomyces cerevisiaeUridineIntramolecular TransferasesIsoenzymesPseudouridinepseudouridine synthasesRibonucleoproteins, Small NuclearRNARNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, MitochondrialRNA, RibosomalRNA, Transfer, Amino Acid-SpecificUridineE. coli, Escherichia colienzymatic mechanismH. volcanii, Haloferax volcanii and/or Halobacterium volcanii.modified nucleosidepseudouridinePus, pseudouridine synthaseregulationRNA ModificationrRNArRNA, ribosomal RNAS. cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiaesnRNAsnRNA, small nuclear RNAS. typhimurium, Salmonella typhimuriumtRNAΨ, Psi, pseudouridine

Identifiers

PMID25616362
PMCPMC4615568
OpenAlexW2061440884

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