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ReviewExperimental cell research2007

Role of phosphorylation on the structural dynamics and function of types III and IV intermediate filaments.

Ram K Sihag, Masaki Inagaki, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Thomas B Shea, Harish C Pant

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Review in Experimental cell research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers.

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118citing papers in PubMed
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

118 citing papers in PubMed, 244 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Metal Ion Binding of Vimentin Tail Domain Fragments.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  15. Neurofilaments in health and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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  17. Vimentin and cytokeratin: Good alone, bad together.Seminars in cancer biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ram K SihagLaboratory of Neurochemistry, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Bldg. 49 Room 2A28, MD 20892, USA. RS1950@Verizon.net
Masaki Inagaki
Tomoya Yamaguchi
Thomas B Shea
Harish C Pant
Aichi Cancer Center · JPNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · USNational Institutes of Health · USUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell · US

Funding

PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION AND REGULATION OF CYTOSKELETON IN NEURONAL SYSTEMSZ01NS002725 · NINDS · NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE · PI PANT, HARISH C · 1988 to 2008
$2.9M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 NS002725
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phosphorylation of types III and IV intermediate filaments (IFs) is known to regulate their organization and function. Phosphorylation of the amino-terminal head domain sites on types III and IV IF proteins plays a key role in the assembly/disassembly of IF subunits into 10 nm filaments, and influences the phosphorylation of sites on the carboxyl-terminal tail domain. These phosphorylation events are largely under the control of second messenger-dependent protein kinases and provide the cells a mechanism to reorganize the IFs in response to the changes in second messenger levels. In mitotic cells, Cdk1, Rho kinase, PAK1 and Aurora-B kinase are believed to regulate vimentin and glial fibrillary acidic protein phosphorylation in a spatio-temporal manner. In neurons, the carboxyl-terminal tail domains of the NF-M and NF-H subunits of heteropolymeric neurofilaments (NFs) are highly phosphorylated by proline-directed protein kinases. The phosphorylation of carboxyl-terminal tail domains of NFs has been suspected to play roles in forming cross-bridges between NFs and microtubules, slowing axonal transport and promoting their integration into cytoskeleton lattice and, in doing so, to control axonal caliber and stabilize the axon. The role of IF phosphorylation in disease pathobiology is discussed.

Indexed as

AnimalsAxonsHumansIntermediate Filament ProteinsIntermediate FilamentsNeurofilament ProteinsPhosphorylationProtein KinasesProtein Structure, TertiaryProtein SubunitsVimentinIntermediate Filament ProteinsNeurofilament ProteinsProtein KinasesProtein SubunitsVimentin

Identifiers

PMID17498690
PMCPMC2570114
OpenAlexW2002021660

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