Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31202023›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2019

Telomerase structures and regulation: shedding light on the chromosome end.

Thi Hoang Duong Nguyen, Kathleen Collins, Eva Nogales

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Thi Hoang Duong NguyenDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; California Institute for Quantitative Biology (QB3), University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bio-Imaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: knguyen289@berkeley.edu.
Kathleen CollinsDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; California Institute for Quantitative Biology (QB3), University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Eva NogalesDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; California Institute for Quantitative Biology (QB3), University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bio-Imaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · USMiller College · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF TELOMERASER01GM054198 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI COLLINS, KATHLEEN · 1996 to 2018
$5.4M
Molecular Mechanism of X-linked Dyskeratosis CongenitaR01HL079585 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI COLLINS, KATHLEEN · 2004 to 2017
$4.1M
Mechanism and Regulation of TelomerasesR35GM130315 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI COLLINS, KATHLEEN · 2019 to 2020
$854k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL079585NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM054198NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM130315
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During genome replication, telomerase adds repeats to the ends of chromosomes to balance the loss of telomeric DNA. The regulation of telomerase activity is of medical relevance, as it has been implicated in human diseases such as cancer, as well as in aging. Until recently, structural information on this enzyme that would facilitate its clinical manipulation had been lacking due to telomerase very low abundance in cells. Recent cryo-EM structures of both the human and Tetrahymena thermophila telomerases have provided a picture of both the shared catalytic core of telomerase and its interaction with species-specific factors that play different roles in telomerase RNP assembly and function. We discuss also progress toward an understanding of telomerase RNP biogenesis and telomere recruitment from recent studies.

Indexed as

Catalytic DomainHumansModels, MolecularTelomeraseTetrahymena thermophilaTelomerase

Identifiers

PMID31202023
PMCPMC8240480
OpenAlexW2951185631

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