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ArticleFASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology2018

An image-based small-molecule screen identifies vimentin as a pharmacologically relevant target of simvastatin in cancer cells.

Kathryn P Trogden, Rachel A Battaglia, Parijat Kabiraj, Victoria J Madden, Harald Herrmann, Natasha T Snider

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Article in FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
41citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Vimentin and cytokeratin: Good alone, bad together.Seminars in cancer biology · 2022
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kathryn P TrogdenDepartment of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Rachel A BattagliaDepartment of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Parijat KabirajDepartment of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Victoria J MaddenDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Harald HerrmannDivision of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
Natasha T SniderDepartment of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversitätsklinikum Erlangen · DE

Funding

NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK110355
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vimentin is a cytoskeletal intermediate filament protein that is expressed in mesenchymal cells and cancer cells during the epithelial-mesenchymal transition. The goal of this study was to identify vimentin-targeting small molecules by using the Tocriscreen library of 1120 biochemically active compounds. We monitored vimentin filament reorganization and bundling in adrenal carcinoma SW13 vimentin-positive (SW13-vim

Indexed as

Adrenal Gland NeoplasmsBreast NeoplasmsCell DeathFemaleHumansLovastatinMCF-7 CellsMicroscopy, FluorescenceNeoplasm ProteinsSimvastatinVimentinLovastatinmevastatinNeoplasm ProteinsSimvastatinVimentincytoskeletondrug screenintermediate filamentsstatin

Identifiers

PMID29401610
PMCPMC5901388
OpenAlexW2784036573

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