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ReviewTrends in molecular medicine2021

The Autoantigen Repertoire and the Microbial RNP World.

Sandra G Williams, Sandra L Wolin

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Review in Trends in molecular medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The cellular landscape of druggable RNA-binding proteins.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  8. Biomolecular Mechanisms of Autoimmune Diseases and Their Relationship with the Resident Microbiota: Friend or Foe?Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2022
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sandra G WilliamsNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA; RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH, Frederick, MD 21702, USA. Electronic address: sandra.williams@nih.gov.
Sandra L WolinRNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH, Frederick, MD 21702, USA. Electronic address: sandra.wolin@nih.gov.
National Cancer Institute · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Clinical Training in RheumatologyZIEAR041176 · NIAMS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES · PI COLBERT, ROBERT · 2009 to 2025
$29.8M
Biogenesis, Function and Turnover of Noncoding RNAsZIABC011757 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI WOLIN, SANDRA · 2017 to 2025
$20.4M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AR999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIE AR041176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although autoimmunity and autoimmune disease (AID) are relatively common, the repertoire of autoantigens is paradoxically very limited. Highly enriched in this autoantigen repertoire are nucleic acids and their binding proteins, which together form large macromolecular structures. Most of these complexes are of ancient evolutionary origin, with homologs throughout multiple kingdoms of life. Why and if these nucleic acid-protein particles drive the development of autoimmunity remains unresolved. Recent advances in our understanding of the microbiome may provide clues about the origins of autoimmunity - and the particular puzzle of why the autoantigen repertoire is so particularly enriched in ribonucleoprotein particles (RNPs). We discuss the possibility that autoimmunity to some RNPs may arise from molecular mimicry to microbial orthologs.

Indexed as

AutoantigensAutoimmunityMicrobiotaAutoimmune DiseasesGenes, BacterialHumansImmunityMolecular MimicryRibonucleoproteinsAutoantigensRibonucleoproteinsautoantigensmicrobiomemolecular mimicryRNA–protein complexes

Identifiers

PMID33722441
PMCPMC9004447
OpenAlexW3138841526

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