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ArticleCell discovery2017

Total chemical synthesis of a thermostable enzyme capable of polymerase chain reaction.

Weiliang Xu, Wenjun Jiang, Jiaxing Wang, Linping Yu, Ji Chen, Xianyu Liu, Lei Liu, Ting F Zhu

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Article in Cell discovery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Biochemistry · 2021
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  15. Mirror-Image 5S Ribonucleoprotein Complexes.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2020
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  16. Engineering Polymerases for New Functions.Trends in biotechnology · 2019
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  19. Novel protein science enabled by total chemical synthesis.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2019
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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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Weiliang XuSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Wenjun JiangSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Tsinghua University , Beijing, China.
Jiaxing WangDepartment of Chemistry, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University , Beijing, China.
Linping YuSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Tsinghua University , Beijing, China.
Ji ChenSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Tsinghua University , Beijing, China.
Xianyu LiuSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Tsinghua University , Beijing, China.
Lei LiuDepartment of Chemistry, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University , Beijing, China.
Ting F ZhuSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Tsinghua University , Beijing, China.
Center for Life Sciences · CNTsinghua University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been a defining tool in modern biology. Towards realizing mirror-image PCR, we have designed and chemically synthesized a mutant version of the 352-residue thermostable

Indexed as

native chemical ligationpolymerase chain reactionprotein chemical synthesisSulfolobus solfataricus P2 DNA polymerase IVthermostable

Identifiers

PMID28265464
PMCPMC5335361
OpenAlexW2592934173

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