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ReviewFEBS letters2017

mTOR referees memory and disease through mRNA repression and competition.

Kimberly F Raab-Graham, Farr Niere

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Review in FEBS letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Activity-Induced Cortical Glutamatergic Neuron Nascent Proteins.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kimberly F Raab-GrahamDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA.
Farr NiereDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA.
Wake Forest University · US

Funding

TROPANE EVALUATION AND GENERAL SCIENTIFIC SERVICES COREP50DA006634 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI PORRINO, LINDA J. · 1991 to 2019
$30.8M
Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism - West - SupplementU01AA013517 · NIAAA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI ROBERTO, MARISA · 2001 to 2014
$12.7M
Wake Forest Alzheimer's Disease Core CenterP30AG049638 · NIA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ESPELAND, MARK ANDREW · 2016 to 2020
$12.2M
Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on AlcoholismU24AA013517 · NIAAA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI ROBERTO, MARISA · 2015 to 2016
$1.5M
NIAAA NIH HHS U01 AA013517NIAAA NIH HHS U24 AA013517NIA NIH HHS P30 AG049638NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA006634
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) activity is required for memory and is dysregulated in disease. Activation of mTOR promotes protein synthesis; however, new studies are demonstrating that mTOR activity also represses the translation of mRNAs. Almost three decades ago, Kandel and colleagues hypothesised that memory was due to the induction of positive regulators and removal of negative constraints. Are these negative constraints repressed mRNAs that code for proteins that block memory formation? Herein, we will discuss the mRNAs coded by putative memory suppressors, how activation/inactivation of mTOR repress protein expression at the synapse, how mTOR activity regulates RNA binding proteins, mRNA stability, and translation, and what the possible implications of mRNA repression are to memory and neurodegenerative disorders.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansMemoryNeurodegenerative DiseasesRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerSynapsesTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerTOR Serine-Threonine Kinaseslocal translationmammalian target of rapamycinmRNA

Identifiers

PMID28493559
PMCPMC5933947
OpenAlexW2612477363

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