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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

A structurally conserved human and

Yaqiang Wang, Marcus Gallagher-Jones, Lukas Sušac, He Song, Juli Feigon

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Extracellular vesicles for delivery of functional telomerase.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2025
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  2. A (Scientific) Lifetime Affair With Nucleic Acids.Journal of molecular biology · 2025
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  3. A degenerate telomerase RNA directs telomeric DNA synthesis in lepidopteran insects.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  11. Telomerase structural biology comes of age.Current opinion in structural biology · 2022
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  15. Single-Run Catalysis and Kinetic Control of Human Telomerase Holoenzyme.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yaqiang WangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569.ORCID 0000-0002-6822-4778
Marcus Gallagher-JonesDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569.ORCID 0000-0003-4227-917X
Lukas SušacDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569.
He SongDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569.ORCID 0000-0001-6630-8508
Juli FeigonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569 feigon@mbi.ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3376-435X
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

STRUCTURE OF TELOMERIC DNA OLIGONUCLEOTIDESR01GM048123 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FEIGON, JULI · 1992 to 2018
$6.4M
Structural biology of telomerase and telomeresR35GM131901 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI JULI FEIGON · 2019 to 2026
$5.7M
800 MHz NMR Console and Cryoprobe ReplacementS10OD025073 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FEIGON, JULI · 2018 to 2018
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM048123NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131901NIH HHS S10 OD025073
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex that counteracts the shortening of chromosome ends due to incomplete replication. Telomerase contains a catalytic core of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and telomerase RNA (TER). However, what defines TERT and separates it from other reverse transcriptases remains a subject of debate. A recent cryoelectron microscopy map of

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AnimalsBinding SitesCatalytic DomainCryoelectron MicroscopyHumansProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein DomainsRNASequence AlignmentShelterin ComplexStructural Homology, ProteinTelomeraseTelomere-Binding ProteinsTetrahymena thermophilaTriboliumACD protein, humanRNAShelterin ComplexTelomerasetelomerase RNATelomere-Binding ProteinsTERT protein, humanelectron microscopyreverse transcriptasetelomereTERTTPP1

Identifiers

PMID33229538
PMCPMC7733840
OpenAlexW3106737507

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