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ArticleCell reports2016

Myriad Triple-Helix-Forming Structures in the Transposable Element RNAs of Plants and Fungi.

Kazimierz T Tycowski, Mei-Di Shu, Joan A Steitz

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Article in Cell reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. RNA Triple Helices: From Structures and Mechanisms to Therapeutic Targets.International journal of biological sciences · 2026
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  4. RNA triple helix assembled by the poly(A) tail enhances retrotransposon mobilization by preventing RNA deadenylation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. ArcRNAs and the formation of nuclear bodies.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2022
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  12. Structural analyses of an RNA stability element interacting with poly(A).Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kazimierz T TycowskiDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536, USA.
Mei-Di ShuDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536, USA.
Joan A SteitzDepartment of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06536, USA. Electronic address: joan.steitz@yale.edu.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

VIRAL SMALL RNPS--ROLES IN CELL TRANSFORMATIONP01CA016038 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI DIMAIO, DANIEL C. · 1985 to 2020
$25.6M
Vertebrate Non-Coding RNPs: Integrating function, biogenesis and survivalR01GM026154 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI STEITZ, JOAN A. · 1985 to 2014
$4.0M
Viral Non-Coding RNAs and Cell TransformationR01CA193300 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI STEITZ, JOAN A. · 2015 to 2015
$272k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS P01 CA016038NCI NIH HHS R01 CA193300NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM026154
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ENE (element for nuclear expression) is a cis-acting RNA structure that protects viral or cellular noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) from nuclear decay through triple-helix formation with the poly(A) tail or 3'-terminal A-rich tract. We expanded the roster of nine known ENEs by bioinformatic identification of ∼200 distinct ENEs that reside in transposable elements (TEs) of numerous non-metazoan and one fish species and in four Dicistrovirus genomes. Despite variation within the ENE core, none of the predicted triple-helical stacks exceeds five base triples. Increased accumulation of reporter transcripts in human cells demonstrated functionality for representative ENEs. Location close to the poly(A) tail argues that ENEs are active in TE transcripts. Their presence in intronless, but not intron-containing, hAT transposase genes supports the idea that TEs acquired ENEs to counteract the RNA-destabilizing effects of intron loss, a potential evolutionary consequence of TE horizontal transfer in organisms that couple RNA silencing to splicing deficits.

Indexed as

Nucleic Acid ConformationBase SequenceCell NucleusConserved SequenceDNA Transposable ElementsFungiHEK293 CellsHumansIntronsPlantsRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerRNA, PlantRNA StabilityRNA, ViralTransposasesDNA Transposable ElementsRNA, FungalRNA, MessengerRNA, PlantRNA, ViralTransposases

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PMID27134163
PMCPMC4864102
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