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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2021

Radicals in Biology: Your Life Is in Their Hands.

JoAnne Stubbe, Daniel G Nocera

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Low-barrier hydrogen bond powers long-range radical transfer in the metal-free ribonucleotide reductase.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  7. Conformationally gated multisite proton-coupled electron transfer in the ribonucleotide reductaseProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. Mechanism of controlled radical initiation in radical SAM GTP 3',8-cyclase.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. Nitrogen-Centered Radicals Derived from Azidonucleosides.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

JoAnne StubbeDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8076-4489
Daniel G NoceraDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5055-320X

Funding

Structure-Function Studies of Ribonucleotide ReductaseR01GM047274 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI DANIEL G. NOCERA · 1992 to 2026
$9.9M
Ribonucleotide Reductase: Structure and FunctionR01GM029595 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON · PI STUBBE, JOANNE · 1985 to 2016
$6.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM029595NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM047274
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radicals in biology, once thought to all be bad actors, are now known to play a central role in many enzymatic reactions. Of the known radical-based enzymes, ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) are pre-eminent as they are essential in the biology of all organisms by providing the building blocks and controlling the fidelity of DNA replication and repair. Intense examination of RNRs has led to the development of new tools and a guiding framework for the study of radicals in biology, pointing the way to future frontiers in radical enzymology.

Indexed as

Amino AcidsAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesBacterial ProteinsDNA ReplicationElectron TransportEscherichia coliFree RadicalsLactobacillus leichmanniiRibonucleotide ReductasesAmino AcidsAmino Acyl-tRNA SynthetasesBacterial ProteinsFree RadicalsRibonucleotide Reductases

Identifiers

PMID34423635
PMCPMC8735831

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