Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17987658›Full record

ArticleGenesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000)2007

Small heat shock protein Hsp27 is required for proper heart tube formation.

Daniel D Brown, Kathleen S Christine, Christopher Showell, Frank L Conlon

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Article in Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daniel D BrownDepartment of Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280, USA.
Kathleen S Christine
Christopher Showell
Frank L Conlon
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Pre-doctoral Training Program in Integrative Vascular BiologyT32HL069768 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Christopher P. Mack · 2002 to 2026
$9.7M
Requirements for the FGF/MAPK in early heart developmentR01HL075256 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CONLON, FRANK LEO · 2004 to 2007
$1.3M
A Genetic Approach to Organogenesis in XenopusR21HL083965 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI CONLON, FRANK LEO · 2005 to 2006
$368k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL075256NHLBI NIH HHS R21 HL083965NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL069768NHLBI NIH HHS T32HL69768
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The small heat shock protein Hsp27 has been shown to be involved in a diverse array of cellular processes, including cellular stress response, protein chaperone activity, regulation of cellular glutathione levels, apoptotic signaling, and regulation of actin polymerization and stability. Furthermore, mutation within Hsp27 has been associated with the human congenital neuropathy Charcot-Marie Tooth (CMT) disease. Hsp27 is known to be expressed in developing embryonic tissues; however, little has been done to determine the endogenous requirement for Hsp27 in developing embryos. In this study, we show that depletion of XHSP27 protein results in a failure of cardiac progenitor fusion resulting in cardia bifida. Furthermore, we demonstrate a concomitant disorganization of actin filament organization and defects in myofibril assembly. Moreover, these defects are not associated with alterations in specification or differentiation. We have thus demonstrated a critical requirement for XHSP27 in developing cardiac and skeletal muscle tissues.

Indexed as

ActinsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsConserved SequenceEmbryo, NonmammalianGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHeartHeat-Shock ProteinsHeat-Shock Proteins, SmallHumansMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionMolecular Sequence DataMyocardiumProtein BiosynthesisSequence AlignmentSomitesActinsHeat-Shock ProteinsHeat-Shock Proteins, Small

Identifiers

PMID17987658
PMCPMC2668208
OpenAlexW2041667812

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