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ReviewFree radical biology & medicine2011

Relationship of electrophilic stress to aging.

Piotr Zimniak

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Review in Free radical biology & medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

61 citing papers in PubMed, 132 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Piotr ZimniakDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA. zimniakpiotr@uams.edu
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System · US

Funding

Role of glutathione transferases in life span extension of C. elegansR01AG028088 · NIA · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI ZIMNIAK, PIOTR · 2007 to 2011
$1.4M
Causative role of lipid peroxidation products in obesity and agingR01AG032643 · NIA · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI SINGH, SHARDA P · 2009 to 2013
$1.2M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG028088NIA NIH HHS R01 AG032643
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review begins with the premise that an organism's life span is determined by the balance between two countervailing forces: (i) the sum of destabilizing effects and (ii) the sum of protective longevity-assurance processes. Against this backdrop, the role of electrophiles is discussed, both as destabilizing factors and as signals that induce protective responses. Because most biological macromolecules contain nucleophilic centers, electrophiles are particularly reactive and toxic in a biological context. The majority of cellular electrophiles are generated from polyunsaturated fatty acids by a peroxidation chain reaction that is readily triggered by oxygen-centered radicals, but propagates without further input of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Thus, the formation of lipid-derived electrophiles such as 4-hydroxynon-2-enal (4-HNE) is proposed to be relatively insensitive to the level of initiating ROS, but to depend mainly on the availability of peroxidation-susceptible fatty acids. This is consistent with numerous observations that life span is inversely correlated to membrane peroxidizability, and with the hypothesis that 4-HNE may constitute the mechanistic link between high susceptibility of membrane lipids to peroxidation and shortened life span. Experimental interventions that directly alter membrane composition (and thus their peroxidizability) or modulate 4-HNE levels have the expected effects on life span, establishing that the connection is not only correlative but causal. Specific molecular mechanisms are considered, by which 4-HNE could (i) destabilize biological systems via nontargeted reactions with cellular macromolecules and (ii) modulate signaling pathways that control longevity-assurance mechanisms.

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Oxidative StressAgingAldehydesAnimalsHumansLipid PeroxidationReactive Oxygen SpeciesSignal Transduction4-hydroxy-2-nonenalAldehydesReactive Oxygen Species

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PMID21708248
PMCPMC3156362
OpenAlexW2017812730

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