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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2018

Deciphering functional glycosaminoglycan motifs in development.

Robert A Townley, Hannes E Bülow

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Bioengineered production of glycosaminoglycans and their analogues.Systems microbiology and biomanufacturing · 2021
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Robert A TownleyDepartment of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States.
Hannes E BülowDepartment of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, United States; Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, United States. Electronic address: hannes.buelow@einstein.yu.edu.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USColumbia University · US

Funding

Molecular NeuropathologyT32NS007098 · NINDS · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI SANTAMBROGIO, LAURA · 1985 to 2015
$5.0M
Genetic Analyses of Heparan Sulfate Function in Cell-Cell InteractionsR01GM101313 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI BUELOW, HANNES ERICH · 2013 to 2016
$1.3M
Novel Approaches to Structure/Function Analyses of Heparan Sulfate in vivoRC1GM090825 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BUELOW, HANNES ERICH · 2009 to 2010
$844k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM101313NIGMS NIH HHS RC1 GM090825NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007098
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) such as heparan sulfate, chondroitin/dermatan sulfate, and keratan sulfate are linear glycans, which when attached to protein backbones form proteoglycans. GAGs are essential components of the extracellular space in metazoans. Extensive modifications of the glycans such as sulfation, deacetylation and epimerization create structural GAG motifs. These motifs regulate protein-protein interactions and are thereby repsonsible for many of the essential functions of GAGs. This review focusses on recent genetic approaches to characterize GAG motifs and their function in defined signaling pathways during development. We discuss a coding approach for GAGs that would enable computational analyses of GAG sequences such as alignments and the computation of position weight matrices to describe GAG motifs.

Indexed as

Molecular StructureExtracellular Matrix ProteinsFibroblast Growth FactorsGlycosaminoglycansHumansHyaluronic AcidNerve Growth FactorNerve Tissue ProteinsSignal TransductionStructure-Activity RelationshipANOS1 protein, humanExtracellular Matrix ProteinsFibroblast Growth FactorsGlycosaminoglycansHyaluronic AcidNerve Growth FactorNerve Tissue Proteins

Identifiers

PMID29579579
PMCPMC6078790
OpenAlexW2792347548

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