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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Identifying roles for peptidergic signaling in mice.

Kathryn G Powers, Xin-Ming Ma, Betty A Eipper, Richard E Mains

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Peptidylglycine α-amidating monooxygenase is required for atrial secretory granule formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kathryn G PowersDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030-3401.
Xin-Ming MaDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030-3401.
Betty A EipperDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030-3401.ORCID 0000-0003-1171-5557
Richard E MainsDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030-3401; mains@uchc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1154-1331
UConn Health · US

Funding

CELL BIOLOGY OF BIOACTIVE PEPTIDE SECRETIONR01DK032948 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI EIPPER, ELIZABETH ANNE, MAINS, RICHARD E · 1986 to 2019
$7.3M
BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PEPTIDE AMIDATIONR01DK032949 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI EIPPER, ELIZABETH ANNE, KING, STEPHEN M · 1986 to 2017
$6.4M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK032948NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK032949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite accumulating evidence demonstrating the essential roles played by neuropeptides, it has proven challenging to use this information to develop therapeutic strategies. Peptidergic signaling can involve juxtacrine, paracrine, endocrine, and neuronal signaling, making it difficult to define physiologically important pathways. One of the final steps in the biosynthesis of many neuropeptides requires a single enzyme, peptidylglycine α-amidating monooxygenase (PAM), and lack of amidation renders most of these peptides biologically inert. PAM, an ancient integral membrane enzyme that traverses the biosynthetic and endocytic pathways, also affects cytoskeletal organization and gene expression. While mice, zebrafish, and flies lacking

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Signal TransductionAnimalsBlood PressureBody Temperature RegulationGene Expression RegulationHippocampusLocomotionMiceMice, KnockoutMice, TransgenicMixed Function OxygenasesMultienzyme ComplexesNeuronsNeuropeptidesPeptidesPhenotypeMixed Function OxygenasesMultienzyme ComplexesNeuropeptidesPeptidespeptidylglycine monooxygenaseamidationatriumclock genesexcitatory neuronsRNAseq

Identifiers

PMID31455734
PMCPMC6778246
OpenAlexW2970132750

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