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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2018

Protein Synthesis Initiation in Eukaryotic Cells.

William C Merrick, Graham D Pavitt

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In one paragraph

Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 215 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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215citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

215 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 342 citations in OpenAlex.

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155 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

William C MerrickDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
Graham D PavittDivision of Molecular and Cellular Function, Faculty of Biology Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom.
Case Western Reserve University · USUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L000652/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L020157/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M006565/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review summarizes our current understanding of the major pathway for the initiation phase of protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells, with a focus on recent advances. We describe the major scanning or messenger RNA (mRNA) m

Indexed as

Peptide Chain Initiation, TranslationalAnimalsEukaryotic CellsProtein Biosynthesis

Identifiers

PMID29735639
PMCPMC6280705
OpenAlexW2802219035

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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