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ArticleNature2020

DNA targeting and interference by a bacterial Argonaute nuclease.

Anton Kuzmenko, Anastasiya Oguienko, Daria Esyunina, Denis Yudin, Mayya Petrova, Alina Kudinova, Olga Maslova, Maria Ninova, Sergei Ryazansky, David Leach and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 99 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
99citing papers in PubMed
9.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

99 citing papers in PubMed, 203 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

12 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Anton KuzmenkoInstitute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. dr.ant.kuz@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7169-0561
Anastasiya Oguienko *Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8473-6378
Daria Esyunina *Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Denis Yudin *Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4103-0543
Mayya PetrovaInstitute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Alina KudinovaInstitute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Olga MaslovaInstitute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Maria NinovaDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5051-5502
Sergei RyazanskyInstitute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3171-2997
David LeachInstitute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4964-6913
Alexei A AravinInstitute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. aaa@caltech.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6956-8257
Andrey KulbachinskiyInstitute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. avkulb@yandex.ru.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2292-6424
Institute of Molecular Genetics · RUCalifornia Institute of Technology · USETH Zurich · CHUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/M019160/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Members of the conserved Argonaute protein family use small RNA guides to locate their mRNA targets and regulate gene expression and suppress mobile genetic elements in eukaryotes

Indexed as

Gene SilencingArgonaute ProteinsBacteriophagesBiocatalysisClostridium butyricumCRISPR-Cas SystemsDNADNA Breaks, Double-StrandedDNA RepairExodeoxyribonuclease VPlasmidsSequence Homology, Nucleic AcidArgonaute ProteinsDNAExodeoxyribonuclease V

Identifiers

PMID32731256
OpenAlexW3045750571

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Registered trials

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