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ArticleNature chemical biology2025

Lifetime of ground conformational state determines the activity of structured RNA.

Rhese D Thompson, Derek L Carbaugh, Joshua R Nielsen, Ciara M Witt, Edgar M Faison, Rita M Meganck, Atul Rangadurai, Bo Zhao, Jeffrey P Bonin, Nathan I Nicely and 4 more

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Article in Nature chemical biology, 2025. 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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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

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Rhese D ThompsonDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6588-0665
Derek L CarbaughDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5721-7097
Joshua R NielsenDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9241-3085
Ciara M WittDepartment of Biophysics and Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Edgar M FaisonDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0207-767X
Rita M MeganckDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Atul RangaduraiDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2019-313X
Bo ZhaoDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Jeffrey P BoninDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Nathan I NicelyDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0025-2377
William F MarzluffDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3635-4073
Aaron T FrankDepartment of Biophysics and Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. atfase@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7782-2200
Helen M LazearDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. helen.lazear@med.unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8649-4579
Qi ZhangDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. zhangqi@unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1754-4058

Funding

Virology Research Program (Program 4)P30CA016086 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI David Darr · 1985 to 2026
$201.5M
Molecular Biology of Viral Diseases Predoctoral Training GrantT32AI007419 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Mark T Heise, CARY A MOODY · 1993 to 2026
$4.7M
UNC Integrated Translational Oncology Program (UNC-iTOP)T32CA244125 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WILLIAM Y. KIM, Jen Jen Yeh · 2019 to 2026
$3.9M
Riboswitch Dynamics at Atomic ResolutionR01GM114432 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ZHANG, QI · 2015 to 2024
$3.0M
The role of Interferon lambda signaling in flavivirus transmission and pathogenesis at the maternal-fetal interfaceR01AI139512 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LAZEAR, HELEN · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Division of Intramural Research of the NIAID) AI007419NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016086NCI NIH HHS T32 CA244125NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI139512NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007419NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114432U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R01GM114432
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomolecules continually sample alternative conformations. Consequently, even the most energetically favored ground conformational state has a finite lifetime. Here, we show that, in addition to the three-dimensional (3D) structure, the lifetime of a ground conformational state determines its biological activity. Using hydrogen-deuterium exchange nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we found that Zika virus exoribonuclease-resistant RNA (xrRNA) encodes a ground conformational state with a lifetime that is ~10

Indexed as

Nucleic Acid ConformationRNA, ViralZika VirusExoribonucleasesHumansMutationVirus ReplicationExoribonucleasesRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID39939412
PMCPMC12202162

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