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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2016

Processing ribonucleotides incorporated during eukaryotic DNA replication.

Jessica S Williams, Scott A Lujan, Thomas A Kunkel

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 130 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
130citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

130 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 183 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Synthetic lethal mutants inJournal of bacteriology · 2023
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  4. Ribonucleotide errors, RNase HII, and ribonucleotide excision repair.Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology · 2026
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  11. ADAR1 is an editor of DNA replication forks.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026
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  17. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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70 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jessica S WilliamsGenome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.
Scott A LujanGenome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.
Thomas A KunkelGenome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.
National Institutes of Health · USNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · US

Funding

Structure-Function Studies Of DNA Replication FidelityZIAES065070 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KUNKEL, THOMAS A · 2009 to 2025
$30.6M
Structure-Function Studies Of DNA Replication FidelityZ01ES065070 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KUNKEL, THOMAS A · 1991 to 2008
$4.3M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 ES065070
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The information encoded in DNA is influenced by the presence of non-canonical nucleotides, the most frequent of which are ribonucleotides. In this Review, we discuss recent discoveries about ribonucleotide incorporation into DNA during replication by the three major eukaryotic replicases, DNA polymerases α, δ and ε. The presence of ribonucleotides in DNA causes short deletion mutations and may result in the generation of single- and double-strand DNA breaks, leading to genome instability. We describe how these ribonucleotides are removed from DNA through ribonucleotide excision repair and by topoisomerase I. We discuss the biological consequences and the physiological roles of ribonucleotides in DNA, and consider how deficiencies in their removal from DNA may be important in the aetiology of disease.

Indexed as

DNA ReplicationAnimalsDNADNA RepairHumansPolymerizationRibonucleotidesDNARibonucleotides

Identifiers

PMID27093943
PMCPMC5445644
OpenAlexW2340343617

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