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ArticleNature2021

Structures of the σ

Assaf Alon, Jiankun Lyu, Joao M Braz, Tia A Tummino, Veronica Craik, Matthew J O'Meara, Chase M Webb, Dmytro S Radchenko, Yurii S Moroz, Xi-Ping Huang and 6 more

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
114citing papers in PubMed
11.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

114 citing papers in PubMed, 194 citations in OpenAlex.

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54 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

16 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Assaf Alon *Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8102-5290
Jiankun Lyu *Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0461-5454
Joao M Braz *Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8955-0735
Tia A TumminoDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9155-820X
Veronica CraikDepartment of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5463-1199
Matthew J O'MearaDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3128-5331
Chase M WebbDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Dmytro S RadchenkoEnamine, Kyiv, Ukraine.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5444-7754
Yurii S MorozChemspace, Kyiv, Ukraine.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6073-002X
Xi-Ping HuangDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Yongfeng LiuDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8649-7892
Bryan L RothDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0561-6520
John J IrwinDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Allan I BasbaumDepartment of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Allan.Basbaum@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1710-6333
Brian K ShoichetDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. shoichet@cgl.ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6098-7367
Andrew C KruseDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Andrew_Kruse@hms.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-1222
University of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USHarvard University · USTaras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv · UAUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

User Training & OutreachP30GM138396 · NIGMS · UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC · PI ROBERT F. FISCHETTI, JANET L. SMITH · 2020 to 2026
$34.3M
Development and Testing of New Computational Methods for Ligand Discovery and MechanismR35GM122481 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Brian K Shoichet · 2017 to 2026
$8.5M
Resource for Biocomputing Visualization and InformaticsP41GM103311 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FERRIN, THOMAS E · 2012 to 2017
$8.2M
From the spinal cord to the brain: Neurology of the pain and itch neuronsR35NS097306 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BASBAUM, ALLAN I. · 2017 to 2024
$7.2M
PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES AND PHARMACOGENOMICST32GM007175 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AHITUV, NADAV, KROETZ, DEANNA L · 1985 to 2021
$7.1M
High-Speed High-Sensitivity Detector for X-ray Micro-Crystallography at GM/CA@APSS10OD012289 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI FISCHETTI, ROBERT F. · 2014 to 2014
$2.0M
Ultra-large library docking for ligand discoveryR01GM133836 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI IRWIN, JOHN J. · 2019 to 2022
$1.6M
Molecular mechanisms of sigma receptor signalingR01GM119185 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KRUSE, ANDREW · 2017 to 2020
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM138396NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103311NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM119185NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM133836NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122481NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007175NIH HHS S10 OD012289NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS097306
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The σ

Indexed as

NeuralgiaReceptors, sigmaAnimalsLigandsMiceStructure-Activity RelationshipLigandsReceptors, sigma

Identifiers

PMID34880501
PMCPMC8867396
OpenAlexW4200289210

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Registered trials

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