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ReviewChemical reviews2025

Principles and Design of Molecular Tools for Sensing and Perturbing Cell Surface Receptor Activity.

Jennifer Sescil, Steven M Havens, Wenjing Wang

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Sensing and Reprogramming Surface Receptor Activation With Synthetic Transcriptional Circuits.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Article
  3. Astrocyte Regulation of Spinal Circuit Function.Journal of neurochemistry · 2026
    Review
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

3 authors.

Jennifer SescilDepartment of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7424-8197
Steven M HavensDepartment of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2796-4059
Wenjing WangDepartment of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6025-9848

Funding

New classes of optogenetic and chemogenetic tools with a feedback controlDP2MH132939 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WANG, WENJING · 2022 to 2025
$2.3M
Design of genetically encoded sensors for detecting endogenous opioid peptidesR01DA053200 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Wenjing Wang · 2022 to 2026
$1.7M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA053200NIMH NIH HHS DP2 MH132939
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell-surface receptors are vital for controlling numerous cellular processes with their dysregulation being linked to disease states. Therefore, it is necessary to develop tools to study receptors and the signaling pathways they control. This Review broadly describes molecular approaches that enable 1) the visualization of receptors to determine their localization and distribution; 2) sensing receptor activation with permanent readouts as well as readouts in real time; and 3) perturbing receptor activity and mimicking receptor-controlled processes to learn more about these processes. Together, these tools have provided valuable insight into fundamental receptor biology and helped to characterize therapeutics that target receptors.

Indexed as

Receptors, Cell SurfaceAnimalsHumansSignal TransductionReceptors, Cell Surface

Identifiers

PMID39999110
PMCPMC11934152

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