Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28491292›Full record

ReviewF1000Research2017

Looking at the recent advances in understanding α-synuclein and its aggregation through the proteoform prism.

Vladimir N Uversky

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in F1000Research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. 'Intelligent' proteins.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Exploring Intrinsic Disorder in Human Synucleins and Associated Proteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
    Article
  9. PET, SPECT, and MRI imaging for evaluation of Parkinson's disease.American journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2024
    Review
  10. Chaotic aging: intrinsically disordered proteins in aging-related processes.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2023
    Article
  11. Article
  12. Moonlighting enzymes: when cellular context defines specificity.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2023
    Review
  13. Article
  14. What Is Parvalbumin for?Biomolecules · 2022
    Review
  15. Initiation and progression of α-synuclein pathology in Parkinson's disease.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022
    Review
  16. Review
  17. Review
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
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

1 author at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Vladimir N UverskyDepartment of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. MDC07, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4037-5857
University of South Florida · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite attracting the close attention of multiple researchers for the past 25 years, α-synuclein continues to be an enigma, hiding sacred truth related to its structure, function, and dysfunction, concealing mechanisms of its pathological spread within the affected brain during disease progression, and, above all, covering up the molecular mechanisms of its multipathogenicity, i.e. the ability to be associated with the pathogenesis of various diseases. The goal of this article is to present the most recent advances in understanding of this protein and its aggregation and to show that the remarkable structural, functional, and dysfunctional multifaceted nature of α-synuclein can be understood using the proteoform concept.

Indexed as

aggregationmultifunctionalitysynucleinopathiesα-synuclein

Identifiers

PMID28491292
PMCPMC5399969
OpenAlexW2605895028

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.