Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21810617›Full record

ReviewJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2011

Intracellular lipid flux and membrane microdomains as organizing principles in inflammatory cell signaling.

Michael B Fessler, John S Parks

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Review in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 173 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
173citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

173 citing papers in PubMed, 273 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Role of membrane microdomains in cardiac protection: strategies for diabetic cardiomyopathy.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025
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  15. The Life of a Kidney Podocyte.Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) · 2025
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael B FesslerLaboratory of Respiratory Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. fesslerm@niehs.nih.gov
John S Parks
National Institutes of Health · USWake Forest University · US

Funding

Cell Signaling of Host DefenseZIAES102005 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI FESSLER, MICHAEL B · 2009 to 2025
$41.7M
Cell Signaling of Host DefenseZ01ES102005 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI FESSLER, MICHAEL B · 2006 to 2008
$3.3M
Macrophage, ABCA1, Inflammation, and AtherosclerosisR01HL094525 · NHLBI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PARKS, JOHN S · 2009 to 2012
$1.5M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 ES102005Intramural NIH HHS ZIA ES102005NHLBI NIH HHS HL049373NHLBI NIH HHS HL094525NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL094525
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid rafts and caveolae play a pivotal role in organization of signaling by TLR4 and several other immune receptors. Beyond the simple cataloguing of signaling events compartmentalized by these membrane microdomains, recent studies have revealed the surprisingly central importance of dynamic remodeling of membrane lipid domains to immune signaling. Simple interventions upon membrane lipid, such as changes in cholesterol loading or crosslinking of raft lipids, are sufficient to induce micrometer-scale reordering of membranes and their protein cargo with consequent signal transduction. In this review, using TLR signaling in the macrophage as a central focus, we discuss emerging evidence that environmental and genetic perturbations of membrane lipid regulate protein signaling, illustrate how homeostatic flow of cholesterol and other lipids through rafts regulates the innate immune response, and highlight recent attempts to harness these insights toward therapeutic development.

Indexed as

AnimalsCaveolaeCholesterolHumansInflammationMacrophagesSignal TransductionToll-Like Receptor 4CholesterolTLR4 protein, humanToll-Like Receptor 4

Identifiers

PMID21810617
PMCPMC3151145
OpenAlexW2098312123

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