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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2017

The Genetic Code and RNA-Amino Acid Affinities.

Michael Yarus

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 84 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Fitting the standard genetic code into its triplet table.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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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.

Michael YarusDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA. yarus@stripe.colorado.edu.
University of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

RNA CATALYSIS OF TRANSLATIONAL REACTIONSR01GM048080 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER · PI YARUS, MICHAEL J · 1993 to 2009
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM048080
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A significant part of the genetic code likely originated via a chemical interaction, which should be experimentally verifiable. One possible verification relates bound amino acids (or perhaps their activated congeners) and ribonucleotide sequences within cognate RNA binding sites. To introduce this interaction, I first summarize how amino acids function as targets for RNA binding. Then the experimental method for selecting relevant RNA binding sites is characterized. The selection method's characteristics are related to the investigation of the RNA binding site model treated at the outset. Finally, real binding sites from selection and also from extant natural RNAs (for example, the

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Identifiers

PMID28333103
PMCPMC5492135
OpenAlexW2599729481

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