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ReviewTrends in cell biology2011

Interaction of calcineurin with substrates and targeting proteins.

Huiming Li, Anjana Rao, Patrick G Hogan

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Review in Trends in cell biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 214 papers.

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214citing papers in PubMed
8.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

214 citing papers in PubMed, 377 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Huiming LiImmune Disease Institute and Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Anjana Rao
Patrick G Hogan
Boston Children's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND GENE INDUCTION IN T LYMPHOCYTESR01AI040127 · NIAID · LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY · PI HOGAN, PATRICK, RAO, ANJANA · 1996 to 2025
$13.3M
STIM-ORAI signaling and other calcium influx pathways in lymphocytesR01AI084167 · NIAID · LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY · PI HOGAN, PATRICK · 2009 to 2019
$4.9M
Bioinformatic strategy to identify calcineurin interactors in the human proteomeR03AI090428 · NIAID · LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY · PI LI, HUIMING · 2010 to 2011
$196k
NIAID NIH HHS AI40127NIAID NIH HHS AI84167NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI040127NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI084167NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI090428
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Calcineurin is a calcium activated protein phosphatase with a major role in calcium signaling in diverse cells and organs and clinical importance as the target of the immunosuppressive drugs cyclosporin A and tacrolimus (FK506). Cell biology studies have focused mainly on the role of calcineurin in transcriptional signaling. Calcium entry in response to extracellular stimuli results in calcineurin activation, and signal transmission from the cytosol into the nucleus through dephosphorylation and nuclear translocation of the transcription factor nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT). This initiates a cascade of transcriptional events involved in physiological and developmental processes. Molecular analyses of the calcineurin-NFAT interaction have been extended recently to encompass the interaction of calcineurin with other substrates, targeting proteins and regulators of calcineurin activity. These studies have increased our understanding of how this essential calcium activated enzyme orchestrates intracellular events in cooperation with other signaling pathways, and have suggested a link between altered calcineurin signaling and the developmental anomalies of Down syndrome.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsCalcineurinCalcineurin InhibitorsCalciumHumansImmunosuppressive AgentsNFATC Transcription FactorsCalcineurinCalcineurin InhibitorsCalciumImmunosuppressive AgentsNFATC Transcription Factors

Identifiers

PMID21115349
PMCPMC3244350
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