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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

GPCRs Are Optimal Regulators of Complex Biological Systems and Orchestrate the Interface between Health and Disease.

Hanne Leysen, Deborah Walter, Bregje Christiaenssen, Romi Vandoren, İrem Harputluoğlu, Nore Van Loon, Stuart Maudsley

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Hanne LeysenReceptor Biology Lab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-5852-9033
Deborah WalterReceptor Biology Lab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-0350-6280
Bregje ChristiaenssenReceptor Biology Lab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
Romi VandorenReceptor Biology Lab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
İrem HarputluoğluReceptor Biology Lab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-7752-7455
Nore Van LoonReceptor Biology Lab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
Stuart MaudsleyReceptor Biology Lab, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-1868-184X
University of Antwerp · BE

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders 1198020NResearch Foundation - Flanders FA010100/32/6484
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

GPCRs arguably represent the most effective current therapeutic targets for a plethora of diseases. GPCRs also possess a pivotal role in the regulation of the physiological balance between healthy and pathological conditions; thus, their importance in systems biology cannot be underestimated. The molecular diversity of GPCR signaling systems is likely to be closely associated with disease-associated changes in organismal tissue complexity and compartmentalization, thus enabling a nuanced GPCR-based capacity to interdict multiple disease pathomechanisms at a systemic level. GPCRs have been long considered as controllers of communication between tissues and cells. This communication involves the ligand-mediated control of cell surface receptors that then direct their stimuli to impact cell physiology. Given the tremendous success of GPCRs as therapeutic targets, considerable focus has been placed on the ability of these therapeutics to modulate diseases by acting at cell surface receptors. In the past decade, however, attention has focused upon how stable multiprotein GPCR superstructures, termed receptorsomes, both at the cell surface membrane and in the intracellular domain dictate and condition long-term GPCR activities associated with the regulation of protein expression patterns, cellular stress responses and DNA integrity management. The ability of these receptorsomes (often in the absence of typical cell surface ligands) to control complex cellular activities implicates them as key controllers of the functional balance between health and disease. A greater understanding of this function of GPCRs is likely to significantly augment our ability to further employ these proteins in a multitude of diseases.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell MembraneDiseaseHumansLigandsPathologyProtein Interaction MapsReceptors, Cell SurfaceReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledSignal TransductionLigandsReceptors, Cell SurfaceReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledallostasisdimensionalityDNA damageG protein-coupled receptornetworkpharmacologyprecisionquantitativesystems biologytherapeutic

Identifiers

PMID34948182
PMCPMC8708147
OpenAlexW4200441132

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