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ArticleNational science review2014

Non-coding RNA: a new frontier in regulatory biology.

Xiang-Dong Fu

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Article in National science review, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 152 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
152citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

152 citing papers in PubMed, 253 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiang-Dong FuDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0651, USA.
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

Functional RNA elements in the human genomeR01HG004659 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Kevin Daniel Corbett, Eugene Wei-Ming Yeo · 2008 to 2026
$12.4M
FUNCTION &REGULATION OF THE HUMAN SPLICING FACTOR SC35R01GM049369 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI FU, XIANG-DONG · 1993 to 2018
$7.2M
Regulation of RNA metabolism and cell growth control by SR protein kinasesR01GM052872 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI DOWDY, STEVEN F · 1996 to 2019
$5.4M
Synergestic roles of SRSF2 and RUNX1 in blood cell development and pathologyR01DK098808 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ZHANG, DONG-ER · 2013 to 2022
$4.8M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG004659NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK098808NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM049369NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM052872
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A striking finding in the past decade is the production of numerous non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) from mammalian genomes. While it is entirely possible that many of those ncRNAs are transcription noises or by-products of RNA processing, increasing evidence suggests that a large fraction of them are functional and provide various regulatory activities in the cell. Thus, functional genomics and proteomics are incomplete without understanding functional ribonomics. As has been long suggested by the 'RNA world' hypothesis, many ncRNAs have the capacity to act like proteins in diverse biochemical processes. The enormous amount of information residing in the primary sequences and secondary structures of ncRNAs makes them particularly suited to function as scaffolds for molecular interactions. In addition, their functions appear to be stringently controlled by default via abundant nucleases when not engaged in specific interactions. This review focuses on the functional properties of regulatory ncRNAs in comparison with proteins and emphasizes both the opportunities and challenges in future ncRNA research.

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biological functionsexperimental approachesfunctional genomicsnon-coding RNAregulatory mechanismsthe RNA world

Identifiers

PMID25821635
PMCPMC4374487
OpenAlexW2099374044

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