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ArticleNature2025

Structural insights into RNA cleavage by PIWI Argonaute.

Zhiqing Li, Qikui Xu, Jing Zhong, Yan Zhang, Tianxiang Zhang, Xiaoze Ying, Xiaoli Lu, Xiaoyi Li, Li Wan, Junchao Xue and 5 more

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Zhiqing Li *Key Laboratory of Growth Regulation and Translational Research of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5342-9327
Qikui Xu *Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China.
Jing Zhong *Key Laboratory of Growth Regulation and Translational Research of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0009-0004-7420-9410
Yan Zhang *Key Laboratory of Growth Regulation and Translational Research of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0009-0000-0545-1036
Tianxiang Zhang *Key Laboratory of Growth Regulation and Translational Research of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.
Xiaoze Ying *Key Laboratory of Growth Regulation and Translational Research of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.
Xiaoli LuInstitute of Biology, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, China.
Xiaoyi LiWestlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China.
Li WanWestlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China.
Junchao XueKey Laboratory of Growth Regulation and Translational Research of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.
Jing HuangWestlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9639-2907
Ying ZhenWestlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8382-2533
Zhao ZhangDuke University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3358-8459
Jianping WuWestlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, China. wujianping@westlake.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-9869-7691
En-Zhi ShenKey Laboratory of Growth Regulation and Translational Research of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. shenenzhi@westlake.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-6095-7803

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaWestlake Center for Genome Editing, programmeZhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Argonaute proteins are categorized into AGO and PIWI clades. Across most animal species, AGO-clade proteins are widely expressed in various cell types, and regulate normal gene expression

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Argonaute ProteinsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsRNA CleavageAnimalsBase PairingCryoelectron MicroscopyModels, MolecularProtein BindingRNA, Small InterferingArgonaute ProteinsCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsRNA, Small Interfering

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