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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2011

MICALs in control of the cytoskeleton, exocytosis, and cell death.

Yeping Zhou, Rou-Afza F Gunput, Youri Adolfs, R Jeroen Pasterkamp

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Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
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

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.

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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Mical modulates Tau toxicity via cysteine oxidation in vivo.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2022
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  15. Semaphorin signaling via MICAL3 induces symmetric cell division to expand breast cancer stem-like cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yeping ZhouDepartment of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University Medical Center Utrecht, STR 4.229, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Rou-Afza F Gunput
Youri Adolfs
R Jeroen Pasterkamp
Utrecht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MICALs form an evolutionary conserved family of multidomain signal transduction proteins characterized by a flavoprotein monooxygenase domain. MICALs are being implicated in the regulation of an increasing number of molecular and cellular processes including cytoskeletal dynamics and intracellular trafficking. Intriguingly, some of these effects are dependent on the MICAL monooxygenase enzyme and redox signaling, while other functions rely on other parts of the MICAL protein. Recent breakthroughs in our understanding of MICAL signaling identify the ability of MICALs to bind and directly modify the actin cytoskeleton, link MICALs to the docking and fusion of exocytotic vesicles, and uncover MICALs as anti-apoptotic proteins. These discoveries could lead to therapeutic advances in neural regeneration, cancer, and other diseases.

Indexed as

ApoptosisExocytosisAmino Acid MotifsCalcium-Binding ProteinsCalponinsCytoskeletal ProteinsCytoskeletonLIM Domain ProteinsMicrofilament ProteinsMultigene FamilyProlineProtein Structure, TertiarySignal TransductionCalcium-Binding ProteinsCalponinsCytoskeletal ProteinsLIM Domain ProteinsMicrofilament ProteinsProline

Identifiers

PMID21822644
PMCPMC3221843
OpenAlexW2079744878

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