Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19740696›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2009

Identifying druggable disease-modifying gene products.

Scott J Dixon, Brent R Stockwell

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
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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

47 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Therapeutic potential for renal fibrosis by targeting Smad3-dependent noncoding RNAs.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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  19. Therapeutic siRNA: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2022
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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

2 authors.

Scott J DixonDepartment of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 614 Fairchild Center, MC2406, 1212 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Brent R Stockwell

Funding

Chemical Genetic Profiling of Engineered Tumor CellsR01CA097061 · NCI · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI STOCKWELL, BRENT R. · 2002 to 2016
$4.8M
Defining a novel trigger for apoptosisR01GM085081 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI STOCKWELL, BRENT R. · 2008 to 2011
$1.5M
CIHRNCI NIH HHS R01 CA097061NCI NIH HHS R01CA097061NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM085081NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM085081
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many disease genes encode proteins that are difficult to target directly using small molecule drugs. Improvements in libraries based on synthetic compounds, natural products, and other types of molecules may ultimately allow some challenging proteins to be successfully targeted; however, these developments alone are unlikely to be sufficient. A complementary strategy exploits the functional interconnectivity of intracellular networks to find druggable targets lying upstream, downstream, or in parallel to a disease-causing gene, where modulation can influence the disease process indirectly. These targets can be selected using prior knowledge of disease-associated pathways or identified using phenotypic chemical and genetic screens in model organisms and cells. These approaches should facilitate the identification of effective drug targets for many genetic disorders.

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PMID19740696
PMCPMC2787993

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