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ReviewProgress in lipid research2017

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR): "pioneer member" of the basic-helix/loop/helix per-Arnt-sim (bHLH/PAS) family of "sensors" of foreign and endogenous signals.

Daniel W Nebert

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Review in Progress in lipid research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 147 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Daniel W NebertUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center, P.O. Box 670056, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056, USA. Electronic address: dan.nebert@uc.edu.

Funding

REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICOLOGY RESEARCHP30ES006096 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI YADAV, JAGJIT S · 1992 to 2022
$35.4M
CYPIAI GENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ToxicityR01ES008147 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI NEBERT, DANIEL W. · 1996 to 2005
$2.5M
PAHs: Balance of Detoxication vs Metabolic ActivationR01ES014403 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI NEBERT, DANIEL W. · 2006 to 2009
$1.4M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES006096NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES008147NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES014403
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The basic-helix/loop/helix per-Arnt-sim (bHLH/PAS) family comprises many transcription factors, found throughout all three kingdoms of life; bHLH/PAS members "sense" innumerable intracellular and extracellular "signals" - including endogenous compounds, foreign chemicals, gas molecules, redox potential, photons (light), gravity, heat, and osmotic pressure. These signals then initiate downstream signaling pathways involved in responding to that signal. The term "PAS", abbreviation for "per-Arnt-sim" was first coined in 1991. Although the mouse Arnt gene was not identified until 1991, evidence of its co-transcriptional binding partner, aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR), was first reported in 1974 as a "sensor" of foreign chemicals, up-regulating cytochrome P450 family 1 (CYP1) and other enzyme activities that usually metabolize the signaling chemical. Within a few years, AHR was proposed also to participate in inflammation. The mouse [Ah] locus was shown (1973-1989) to be relevant to chemical carcinogenesis, mutagenesis, toxicity and teratogenesis, the mouse Ahr gene was cloned in 1992, and the first Ahr(-/-) knockout mouse line was reported in 1995. After thousands of studies from the early 1970s to present day, we now realize that AHR participates in dozens of signaling pathways involved in critical-life processes, affecting virtually every organ and cell-type in the animal, including many invertebrates.

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Signal TransductionAnimalsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsHumansInflammationProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesReceptors, Aryl HydrocarbonBasic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsPAS domain kinasesProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesReceptors, Aryl HydrocarbonAHRbHLH/PAS family of transcription factors“Brain-gut-microbiome”CancerDose-response curveEicosanoidsEmbryonic stem cellsLipid mediatorsMouse geneticsPro-inflammatory and post-inflammatory responseProstaglandins

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PMCPMC5568781

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