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ArticleBiochimie2015

Taming molecular flexibility to tackle rare diseases.

Maria Vittoria Cubellis, Marc Baaden, Giuseppina Andreotti

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Article in Biochimie, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Maria Vittoria CubellisDipartimento di Biologia, Università Federico II, 80126 Napoli, Italy. Electronic address: cubellis@unina.it.
Marc BaadenLaboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, CNRS, UPR9080, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France. Electronic address: baaden@smplinux.de.
Giuseppina AndreottiIstituto di Chimica Biomolecolare-CNR, 80078 Pozzuoli, Italy.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRIstituto di Chimica Biomolecolare · ITUniversity of Naples Federico II · IT

Funding

Telethon GGP12108
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many mutations responsible of Fabry disease destabilize lysosomal alpha-galactosidase, but retain the enzymatic activity. These mutations are associated to a milder phenotype and are potentially curable with a pharmacological therapy either with chaperones or with drugs that modulate proteostasis. We demonstrate the effectiveness of molecular dynamics simulations to correlate the genotype to the severity of the disease. We studied the relation between protein flexibility and residual enzymatic activity of pathological missense mutants in the cell. We found that mutations occurring at flexible sites are likely to retain activity in vivo. The usefulness of molecular dynamics for diagnostic purposes is not limited to lysosomal galactosidase because destabilizing mutations are widely encountered in other proteins, too, and represent a large share of all the ones associated to human diseases.

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alpha-GalactosidaseFabry DiseaseMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationMutationHumansalpha-GalactosidaseDiagnostic useDiseaseMolecular dynamicsProtein stability

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PMID25841341
PMCPMC4441037
OpenAlexW2018746781

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