Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21945576›Full record

ArticleMethods (San Diego, Calif.)2012

Biochemical and cell biological analysis of actin in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

Shoichiro Ono, David Pruyne

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Article in Methods (San Diego, Calif.), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 55% 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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Imaging of Actin Cytoskeleton in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  5. Imaging of Actin Cytoskeletal Integrity During Aging in C. elegans.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  6. Mutations inF1000Research · 2019
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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.

Shoichiro OnoDepartment of Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. sono@emory.edu
David Pruyne
Emory University · USSUNY Upstate Medical University · US

Funding

Regulation of actin dynamics during myofibril assemblyR01AR048615 · NIAMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI ONO, SHOICHIRO · 2002 to 2021
$6.2M
NIAMS NIH HHS AR48615NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR048615
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has long been a useful model organism for muscle research. Its body wall muscle is obliquely striated muscle and exhibits structural similarities with vertebrate striated muscle. Actin is the core component of the muscle thin filaments, which are highly ordered in sarcomeric structures in striated muscle. Genetic studies have identified genes that regulate proper organization and function of actin filaments in C. elegans muscle, and sequence of the worm genome has revealed a number of conserved candidate genes that may regulate actin. To precisely understand the functions of actin-binding proteins, such genetic and genomic studies need to be complemented by biochemical characterization of these actin-binding proteins in vitro. This article describes methods for purification and biochemical characterization of actin from C. elegans. Although rabbit muscle actin is commonly used to characterize actin-binding proteins from many eukaryotic organisms, we detect several quantitative differences between C. elegans actin and rabbit muscle actin, highlighting that use of actin from an appropriate source is important in some cases. Additionally, we describe probes for cell biological analysis of actin in C. elegans.

Indexed as

ActinsAnimalsBlotting, WesternCaenorhabditis elegansCombinatorial Chemistry TechniquesElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelHumansRabbitsActins

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PMID21945576
PMCPMC3258461
OpenAlexW2089098033

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