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ReviewAntioxidants & redox signaling2009

Oxidative-dependent integration of signal transduction with intercellular gap junctional communication in the control of gene expression.

Brad L Upham, James E Trosko

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Review in Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Fundamentals of redox regulation in biology.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2024
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  7. In Search of a Unifying Concept in Human Diseases.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  15. Biologic relativity: Who is the observer and what is observed?Progress in biophysics and molecular biology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brad L UphamDepartment of Pediatrics and Human Development, National Food Safety and Toxicology Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. upham@msu.edu
James E Trosko
Michigan State University · US

Funding

Epigenetic toxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonsR01ES013268 · NIEHS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI UPHAM, BRAD L. · 2006 to 2008
$1.1M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES013268-01A2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research on oxidative stress focused primarily on determining how reactive oxygen species (ROS) damage cells by indiscriminate reactions with their macromolecular machinery, particularly lipids, proteins, and DNA. However, many chronic diseases are not always a consequence of tissue necrosis, DNA, or protein damage, but rather to altered gene expression. Gene expression is highly regulated by the coordination of cell signaling systems that maintain tissue homeostasis. Therefore, much research has shifted to the understanding of how ROS reversibly control gene expression through cell signaling mechanisms. However, most research has focused on redox regulation of signal transduction within a cell, but we introduce a more comprehensive-systems biology approach to understanding oxidative signaling that includes gap junctional intercellular communication, which plays a role in coordinating gene expression between cells of a tissue needed to maintain tissue homeostasis. We propose a hypothesis that gap junctions are critical in modulating the levels of second messengers, such as low molecular weight reactive oxygen, needed in the transduction of an external signal to the nucleus in the expression of genes. Thus, any comprehensive-systems biology approach to understanding oxidative signaling must also include gap junctions, in which aberrant gap junctions have been clearly implicated in many human diseases.

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AnimalsCell CommunicationGap JunctionsGene ExpressionHumansReactive Oxygen SpeciesSignal TransductionReactive Oxygen Species

Identifiers

PMID18834329
PMCPMC2933147
OpenAlexW2035563435

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