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ReviewDevelopmental cell2011

Crosstalk in cellular signaling: background noise or the real thing?

Grégory Vert, Joanne Chory

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Review in Developmental cell, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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68citing papers in PubMed
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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

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.

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

68 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. [Role of glutathione in regulating ferroptosis and cuproptosis in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease].Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2026
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Grégory VertBiochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5004, 2 Place Viala, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 1, France.
Joanne Chory

Funding

INITIAL EVENTS IN PHOTORECEPTOR SIGNALINGR01GM052413 · NIGMS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI CHORY, JOANNE · 1995 to 2016
$5.4M
Molecular Mechanisms of Steroid Hormone Perception at the Cell SurfaceR01GM094428 · NIGMS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI CHORY, JOANNE · 2011 to 2014
$1.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM052413NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM094428
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the past two decades, molecular biologists and geneticists have deconstructed intracellular signaling pathways in individual cells, revealing a great deal of crosstalk among key signaling pathways in the animal kingdom. Fewer examples have been reported in plants, which appear to integrate multiple signals on the promoters of target genes or to use gene family members to convey signal-specific output. For both plants and animals, the question now is whether the "crosstalk" is biologically relevant or simply noise in the experimental system. To minimize such noise, we suggest studying signaling pathways in the context of intact organisms with minimal perturbation from the experimenter.

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AnimalsBrassinosteroidsCell Physiological PhenomenaImmunity, InnateIndoleacetic AcidsModels, BiologicalPlant Growth RegulatorsPlant Physiological PhenomenaPlantsSignal TransductionBrassinosteroidsIndoleacetic AcidsPlant Growth Regulators

Identifiers

PMID22172668
PMCPMC3281494

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