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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2017

Avoidance of reporter assay distortions from fused dual reporters.

Gary Loughran, Michael T Howard, Andrew E Firth, John F Atkins

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
64citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

64 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Molecular architecture and diversity of StopGo/2A translational recoding.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Gary LoughranSchool of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork T12 YT57, Ireland.
Michael T HowardDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
Andrew E FirthDivision of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QP, United Kingdom.
John F AtkinsSchool of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork T12 YT57, Ireland.
University of Utah · USUniversity College Cork · IEUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

The effects of dietary selenium on translational control of protein synthesisR01GM114291 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI HOWARD, MICHAEL T · 2015 to 2022
$2.4M
Translational control of selenoprotein synthesisR21ES022716 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI HOWARD, MICHAEL T · 2013 to 2014
$408k
European Research Council 646891NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES022716NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114291Wellcome Trust 106207
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Positioning test sequences between fused reporters permits monitoring of both translation levels and framing, before and after the test sequence. Many studies, including those on recoding such as productive ribosomal frameshifting and stop codon readthrough, use distinguishable luciferases or fluorescent proteins as reporters. Occasional distortions, due to test sequence product interference with the individual reporter activities or stabilities, are here shown to be avoidable by the introduction of tandem StopGo sequences (2A) flanking the test sequence. Using this new vector system (pSGDluc), we provide evidence for the use of a 3' stem-loop stimulator for

Indexed as

Frameshifting, RibosomalGenes, ReporterAcid PhosphataseAmino Acid SequenceBase SequenceCodon, TerminatorGenetic VectorsHEK293 CellsHumansLuciferasesLuminescent ProteinsVascular Endothelial Growth Factor AAcid PhosphataseACP2 protein, humanCodon, TerminatorLuciferasesLuminescent ProteinsVascular Endothelial Growth Factor AVEGFA protein, humandual-luciferaseframeshiftingreadthroughrecodingStopGo

Identifiers

PMID28442579
PMCPMC5513072
OpenAlexW2607693344

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