Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29130371›Full record

ArticleRNA biology2018

"Lost in translation: Seeing the forest by focusing on the trees".

Kelly T Hughes, Fabienne F V Chevance

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Article in RNA biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Kelly T Hughesa Biology, University of Utah , Salt Lake City , UT , United States.
Fabienne F V Chevancea Biology, University of Utah , Salt Lake City , UT , United States.

Funding

Coupling gene regulation to flagellar morphogenesisR01GM056141 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HUGHES, KELLY T · 1998 to 2023
$8.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM056141
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A complex process translates messenger RNA (mRNA) base sequence into protein amino acid sequence. Transfer RNAs must recognize 3-base codons in the mRNA to insert the correct amino acids into the growing protein. Codon degeneracy makes decoding complicated in that multiple (synonymous) triplets can encode a single amino acid and multiple tRNAs can have the same anticodon. Over the last twenty years, new developments in structural biology, genome sequencing and bioinformatics has elucidated the intricacies of the ribosome structure and the details of the translation process. High throughput analyses of sequence information support the idea that mRNA folding has a major effect on expression for codons at the 5'-end of mRNA (N-terminal region of a polypeptide). Despite a forest of sequence data, significant details of the complex translation process can escape detection. However, a sensitive translation assay has allowed a single tree in this forest to be revealing.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsGenetic CodeModels, MolecularProtein BiosynthesisRNA FoldingRNA, MessengerRNA, TransferSequence Analysis, RNABacterial ProteinsFlgM protein, BacteriaRNA, MessengerRNA, TransfercontextGenetic coderegulation of translationsynonymous codonstranslationtRNA

Identifiers

PMID29130371
PMCPMC5798947

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