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ArticleNature communications2023

Monovalent metal ion binding promotes the first transesterification reaction in the spliceosome.

Jana Aupič, Jure Borišek, Sebastian M Fica, Wojciech P Galej, Alessandra Magistrato

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Exploring Disordered Regions of Human Spliceosome Proteins.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2026
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  4. Controlled dynamic remodeling of the spliceosome active site enables the first step of splicing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Jana AupičNational Research Council of Italy (CNR)-Materials Foundry (IOM) c/o International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6246-962X
Jure BorišekTheory department, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Sebastian M FicaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9186-0361
Wojciech P GalejEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble, France.ORCID 0000-0001-8859-5229
Alessandra MagistratoNational Research Council of Italy (CNR)-Materials Foundry (IOM) c/o International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. alessandra.magistrato@sissa.it.ORCID 0000-0002-2003-1985
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati · ITEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory · FRNational Institute of Chemistry · SIUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cleavage and formation of phosphodiester bonds in nucleic acids is accomplished by large cellular machineries composed of both protein and RNA. Long thought to rely on a two-metal-ion mechanism for catalysis, structure comparisons revealed many contain highly spatially conserved second-shell monovalent cations, whose precise function remains elusive. A recent high-resolution structure of the spliceosome, essential for pre-mRNA splicing in eukaryotes, revealed a potassium ion in the active site. Here, we employ biased quantum mechanics/ molecular mechanics molecular dynamics to elucidate the function of this monovalent ion in splicing. We discover that the K

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RNASpliceosomesBinding SitesCatalysisCations, MonovalentChelating AgentsMetalsNucleic Acid ConformationPotassiumRNA SplicingCations, MonovalentChelating AgentsMetalsPotassiumRNA

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PMCPMC10733407
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