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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Identification of a putative binding site critical for general anesthetic activation of TRPA1.

Hoai T Ton, Thieu X Phan, Ara M Abramyan, Lei Shi, Gerard P Ahern

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The Serotonergic Dorsal Raphe Promotes Emergence from Propofol Anesthesia in Zebrafish.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  3. Propofol reduces human TRPA1 activity in a warm environment.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025
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  6. Synapse-Specific Trapping of SNARE Machinery Proteins in the AnesthetizedThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  14. Activation ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  16. Structural Pharmacology of TRP Channels.Journal of molecular biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hoai T TonDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007.
Thieu X PhanDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007.
Ara M AbramyanComputational Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics Unit, National Institute on Drug Abuse-Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224.
Lei ShiComputational Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics Unit, National Institute on Drug Abuse-Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224.
Gerard P AhernDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007; gpa3@georgetown.edu.
Georgetown University · USNational Institute on Drug Abuse · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Structural basis for the functions of dopamine receptors, neurotransmitter transporters, and sigma 1 receptorZIADA000606 · NIDA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE · PI SHI, LEI · 2015 to 2025
$20.5M
TRPA1 and General AnestheticsR21NR012065 · NINR · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI AHERN, GERARD P · 2011 to 2012
$426k
NINR NIH HHS R21 NR012065
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

General anesthetics suppress CNS activity by modulating the function of membrane ion channels, in particular, by enhancing activity of GABA

Indexed as

Anesthetics, GeneralAnimalsDrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsHEK293 CellsHumansHydrogen BondingIon ChannelsIsofluraneMiceModels, MolecularMolecular Dynamics SimulationMutagenesisOximesPropofolTRPA1 Cation ChannelA 967079Anesthetics, GeneralDrosophila ProteinsIon ChannelsIsofluraneOximesPropofolTRPA1 Cation ChannelTrpA1 protein, DrosophilaTRPA1 protein, humanTrpa1 protein, mouseA-967079general anestheticisofluranepropofolTRPA1

Identifiers

PMID28320952
PMCPMC5389314
OpenAlexW2599708134

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