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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2016

Use of the MS2 aptamer and coat protein for RNA localization in yeast: A response to "MS2 coat proteins bound to yeast mRNAs block 5' to 3' degradation and trap mRNA decay products: implications for the localization of mRNAs by MS2-MCP system".

Gal Haimovich, Dmitry Zabezhinsky, Brian Haas, Boris Slobodin, Pravinkumar Purushothaman, Lin Fan, Joshua Z Levin, Chad Nusbaum, Jeffrey E Gerst

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Translation Dynamics of Single mRNAs in Live Cells.Annual review of biophysics · 2024
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  13. Research progress of live-cell RNA imaging techniques.Zhejiang da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical sciences · 2022
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  15. Intracellular mRNA transport and localized translation.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gal HaimovichDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Dmitry ZabezhinskyDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Brian HaasBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Boris SlobodinDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Pravinkumar PurushothamanDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Lin FanBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Joshua Z LevinBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Chad NusbaumBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Jeffrey E GerstDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Weizmann Institute of Science · ILBroad Institute · US

Funding

YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME LABORATORY COREP01HG000306 · NHGRI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SCHLESSINGER, DAVID · 1990 to 1990
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NHGRI NIH HHS U54HG00306
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The MS2 system has been extensively used to visualize single mRNA molecules in live cells and follow their localization and behavior. In their Letter to the Editor recently published, Garcia and Parker suggest that use of the MS2 system may yield erroneous mRNA localization results due to the accumulation of 3' decay products. Here we cite published works and provide new data which demonstrate that this is not a phenomenon general to endogenously expressed MS2-tagged transcripts, and that some of the results obtained in their study could have arisen from artifacts of gene expression.

Indexed as

Aptamers, NucleotideFungal ProteinsProtein BindingRNA, MessengerAptamers, NucleotideFungal ProteinsRNA, MessengermRNA decaymRNA localizationMS2 aptamerMS2 coat proteinP-bodies

Identifiers

PMID26968626
PMCPMC4836641
OpenAlexW2296034633

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