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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2018

RAD52 is required for RNA-templated recombination repair in post-mitotic neurons.

Starr Welty, Yaqun Teng, Zhuobin Liang, Weixing Zhao, Laurie H Sanders, J Timothy Greenamyre, Maria Eulalia Rubio, Amantha Thathiah, Ravindra Kodali, Ronald Wetzel and 2 more

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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70citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 94 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Starr WeltyFrom the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219.
Yaqun TengFrom the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219.
Zhuobin Liangthe Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8114.
Weixing Zhaothe Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8114.
Laurie H Sandersthe Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710.
J Timothy Greenamyrethe Departments of Neurology and.
Maria Eulalia Rubiothe Department of Neurobiology and Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, and.
Amantha Thathiahthe Departments of Neurology and.
Ravindra Kodalithe Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282.
Ronald WetzelStructural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
Arthur S LevineFrom the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219.
Li LanFrom the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, lil64@pitt.edu.
University of Pittsburgh · USUPMC Hillman Cancer Center · USYale University · USDuke Medical Center · USDuquesne University · US

Funding

VECTOR CORE FACILITYP30CA047904 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Jessie Nedrow · 1988 to 2026
$158.0M
VARIABILITY, STABILITY & SMOOTHNESS OF WALKINGP30AG024827 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI JENNIFER S BRACH · 2004 to 2026
$28.6M
Mechanisms of hypersensitivity to sound-induced cochlear damageR01DC013048 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Maria-Eulalia Rubio-Valero · 2013 to 2026
$6.8M
Transcription-Coupled Homologous Recombination upon DNA DamageR01GM118833 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LAN, LI · 2016 to 2020
$1.6M
Mechanisms of hypersensitivity to sound-induced cochlear damageR56DC013048 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI RUBIO-VALERO, MARIA-EULALIA · 2018 to 2018
$304k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA047904NIA NIH HHS P30 AG024827NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC013048NIDCD NIH HHS R56 DC013048NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118833
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been long assumed that post-mitotic neurons only utilize the error-prone non-homologous end-joining pathway to repair double-strand breaks (DSBs) associated with oxidative damage to DNA, given the inability of non-replicating neuronal DNA to utilize a sister chromatid template in the less error-prone homologous recombination (HR) repair pathway. However, we and others have found recently that active transcription triggers a replication-independent recombinational repair mechanism in G

Indexed as

DNA Breaks, Double-StrandedAnimalsG1 PhaseMitosisNeuronsRad52 DNA Repair and Recombination ProteinRatsRecombination, GeneticResting Phase, Cell CycleRNARad52 DNA Repair and Recombination ProteinRNAAlzheimer's diseaseamyloid β (Aβ)neuronoxidative damagerecombinationRNA

Identifiers

PMID29217771
PMCPMC5787811
OpenAlexW2771974203

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