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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

The structurally conserved TELR region on shelterin protein TPP1 is essential for telomerase processivity but not recruitment.

Ranjodh Sandhu, Madhav Sharma, Derek Wei, Lifeng Xu

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Fission yeast RPA-TERT-Tpz1bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. The canonical RPA complex interacts with Est3 to regulate yeast telomerase activity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Telomerase misbehaves after a breakup.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024
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  10. Telomere maintenance in African trypanosomes.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ranjodh SandhuDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.ORCID 0000-0002-6459-7542
Madhav SharmaDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.ORCID 0000-0003-0068-5508
Derek WeiDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
Lifeng XuDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 lfxu@ucdavis.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7887-5451
University of California, Davis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The shelterin protein TPP1 is involved in both recruiting telomerase and stimulating telomerase processivity in human cells. Assessing the in vivo significance of the latter role of TPP1 has been difficult, because TPP1 mutations that perturb telomerase function tend to abolish both telomerase recruitment and processivity. The

Indexed as

MutationTelomere HomeostasisHumansShelterin ComplexTelomeraseTelomere-Binding ProteinsTelomeric Repeat Binding Protein 2ACD protein, humanPOT1 protein, humanShelterin ComplexTelomeraseTelomere-Binding ProteinsTelomeric Repeat Binding Protein 2TERF2 protein, humanTERT protein, humanlong-term cell viabilityseparation-of-functionshelterin protein TPP1telomerase processivitytelomere extension

Identifiers

PMID34282008
PMCPMC8325329
OpenAlexW3185209785

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