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ReviewGenes2017

RNA Editing, ADAR1, and the Innate Immune Response.

Qingde Wang, Xiaoni Li, Ruofan Qi, Timothy Billiar

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
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Review in Genes, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07108348 (The Effect of ADAR1 Expression Level on Total Neoadjuvant Treatment Response in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT07108348 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

The Effect of ADAR1 Expression Level on Total Neoadjuvant Treatment Response in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorNecmettin Erbakan UniversityRan2025 to 2026Enrolled50ConditionsRectum Cancer, AdenocarcinomaArmsAdenosine deaminase acting on RNA1
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 111 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. An ADAR2-mimic base editor for efficient C-to-U RNA editing in vivo.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qingde WangDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. wangqd@pitt.edu.
Xiaoni LiDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. lix10@upmc.edu.
Ruofan QiDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. qir@upmc.edu.
Timothy BilliarDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. billiar@upmc.edu.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

NITRIC OXIDE AND HEPATIC FUNCTION IN SEPSIS AND TRAUMAR01GM044100 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BILLIAR, TIMOTHY R · 1995 to 2017
$1.9M
Function of a novel molecule ADAR1 in endothelial cells for angiogenesisR21AG052912 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WANG, QINGDE · 2016 to 2017
$424k
NIA NIH HHS R21 AG052912NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM044100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA editing, particularly A-to-I RNA editing, has been shown to play an essential role in mammalian embryonic development and tissue homeostasis, and is implicated in the pathogenesis of many diseases including skin pigmentation disorder, autoimmune and inflammatory tissue injury, neuron degeneration, and various malignancies. A-to-I RNA editing is carried out by a small group of enzymes, the adenosine deaminase acting on RNAs (ADARs). Only three members of this protein family, ADAR1-3, exist in mammalian cells. ADAR3 is a catalytically null enzyme and the most significant function of ADAR2 was found to be in editing on the neuron receptor GluR-B mRNA. ADAR1, however, has been shown to play more significant roles in biological and pathological conditions. Although there remains much that is not known about how ADAR1 regulates cellular function, recent findings point to regulation of the innate immune response as an important function of ADAR1. Without appropriate RNA editing by ADAR1, endogenous RNA transcripts stimulate cytosolic RNA sensing receptors and therefore activate the IFN-inducing signaling pathways. Overactivation of innate immune pathways can lead to tissue injury and dysfunction. However, obvious gaps in our knowledge persist as to how ADAR1 regulates innate immune responses through RNA editing. Here, we review critical findings from ADAR1 mechanistic studies focusing on its regulatory function in innate immune responses and identify some of the important unanswered questions in the field.

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ADAR1innate immuneRNA editingRNA sensing

Identifiers

PMID28106799
PMCPMC5295035
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