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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2015

Unzippers, resolvers and sensors: a structural and functional biochemistry tale of RNA helicases.

Ana Lúcia Leitão, Marina C Costa, Francisco J Enguita

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Role of DEAD/DEAH-box helicases in immunity, infection and cancers.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2025
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  6. Identifying RNA Helicase Inhibitors Using Duplex Unwinding Assays.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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  14. Emerging relationship between RNA helicases and autophagy.Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ana Lúcia LeitãoDepartamento de Ciências e Tecnologia da Biomassa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal. aldl@fct.unl.pt.
Marina C CostaInstituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal. marinacosta@fm.ul.pt.
Francisco J EnguitaInstituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal. fenguita@fm.ul.pt.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The centrality of RNA within the biological world is an irrefutable fact that currently attracts increasing attention from the scientific community. The panoply of functional RNAs requires the existence of specific biological caretakers, RNA helicases, devoted to maintain the proper folding of those molecules, resolving unstable structures. However, evolution has taken advantage of the specific position and characteristics of RNA helicases to develop new functions for these proteins, which are at the interface of the basic processes for transference of information from DNA to proteins. RNA helicases are involved in many biologically relevant processes, not only as RNA chaperones, but also as signal transducers, scaffolds of molecular complexes, and regulatory elements. Structural biology studies during the last decade, founded in X-ray crystallography, have characterized in detail several RNA-helicases. This comprehensive review summarizes the structural knowledge accumulated in the last two decades within this family of proteins, with special emphasis on the structure-function relationships of the most widely-studied families of RNA helicases: the DEAD-box, RIG-I-like and viral NS3 classes.

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DEAD-box RNA HelicasesHumansNucleic Acid ConformationProtein Structure, TertiaryRNARNA HelicasesRNA VirusesViral ProteinsDEAD-box RNA HelicasesRNARNA HelicasesViral Proteins

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PMID25622248
PMCPMC4346836

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