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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2011

Protein kinase C: the "masters" of calcium and lipid.

Peter Lipp, Gregor Reither

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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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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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  14. Calcium sensing and signaling are impaired in the lumbar spine of a rat model of congenital kyphosis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2023
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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.

Peter LippInstitute for Molecular Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany. Peter.Lipp@uniklinikum-saarland.de
Gregor Reither

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coordinated and physiological behavior of living cells in an organism critically depends on their ability to interact with surrounding cells and with the extracellular space. For this, cells have to interpret incoming stimuli, correctly process the signals, and produce meaningful responses. A major part of such signaling mechanisms is the translation of incoming stimuli into intracellularly understandable signals, usually represented by second messengers or second-messenger systems. Two key second messengers, namely the calcium ion and signaling lipids, albeit extremely different in nature, play an important and often synergistic role in such signaling cascades. In this report, we will shed some light on an entire family of protein kinases, the protein kinases C, that are perfectly designed to exactly decode these two second messengers in all of their properties and convey the signaling content to downstream processes within the cell.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionCalciumCalcium SignalingCytosolEnzyme ActivationLipid MetabolismModels, BiologicalPhospholipidsPhosphorylationProtein Kinase CProtein Structure, TertiaryCalciumPhospholipidsProtein Kinase C

Identifiers

PMID21628429
PMCPMC3119906

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