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ReviewTrends in cell biology2017

The Cilium: Cellular Antenna and Central Processing Unit.

Jarema J Malicki, Colin A Johnson

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In one paragraph

Review in Trends in cell biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 200 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
200citing papers in PubMed
30.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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

200 citing papers in PubMed, 370 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Broadening horizons: Pathogenesis and therapeutics of renal ciliopathies.Journal of cell communication and signaling · 2026
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  3. Identification of novel genes regulating the development of the palate.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026
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  5. Centrosomal JAK2 Tyrosine Kinase Regulates Primary Cilia Length, Cell Proliferation, and Cilia Orientation During Cell Migration.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  10. Tppp3 determines basal body positioning and identity of respiratory cilia via microtubule assembly and sphingolipid homeostasis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. Chinese journal of cancer research = Chung-kuo yen cheng yen chiu · 2025
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140 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 at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jarema J MalickiBateson Centre and Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Western Bank Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK. Electronic address: j.malicki@sheffield.ac.uk.
Colin A JohnsonWellcome Trust Brenner Building, Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Leeds, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK. Electronic address: c.johnson@leeds.ac.uk.
University of Leeds · GBUniversity of Sheffield · GB

Funding

CILIA IN EYE DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASER01EY018176 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · PI MALICKI, JAREMA · 2008 to 2014
$2.4M
Medical Research Council G0700073Medical Research Council MR/K011154/1Medical Research Council MR/M000532/1Medical Research Council MR/N000714/1NEI NIH HHS R01 EY018176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cilia mediate an astonishing diversity of processes. Recent advances provide unexpected insights into the regulatory mechanisms of cilium formation, and reveal diverse regulatory inputs that are related to the cell cycle, cytoskeleton, proteostasis, and cilia-mediated signaling itself. Ciliogenesis and cilia maintenance are regulated by reciprocal antagonistic or synergistic influences, often acting in parallel to each other. By receiving parallel inputs, cilia appear to integrate multiple signals into specific outputs and may have functions similar to logic gates of digital systems. Some combinations of input signals appear to impose higher hierarchical control related to the cell cycle. An integrated view of these regulatory inputs will be necessary to understand ciliogenesis and its wider relevance to human biology.

Indexed as

Actin CytoskeletonAnimalsCell CycleCiliaHumansOrganogenesisProteostasisSignal Transductionactin cytoskeletonautophagycell cycleciliogenesismTOR pathwayprimary cilium

Identifiers

PMID27634431
PMCPMC5278183
OpenAlexW2520816666

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