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ReviewThe international journal of biochemistry & cell biology2017

An unfolding story: Small molecules remedy misfolded monoamine transporters.

Ameya Kasture, Thomas Stockner, Michael Freissmuth, Sonja Sucic

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Review in The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Rescue of Epilepsy-Associated Mutations of the Highly Conserved Glycine Residue 443 in the Human GABA Transporter 1.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  4. A transporter's doom or destiny:Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2024
    Review
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  6. Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022
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  10. Big Lessons from Tiny Flies:International journal of molecular sciences · 2018
    Review
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ameya KastureInstitute of Pharmacology, Center of Physiology and Pharmacology and Gaston H. Glock Research Laboratories for Exploratory Drug Development, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
Thomas StocknerInstitute of Pharmacology, Center of Physiology and Pharmacology and Gaston H. Glock Research Laboratories for Exploratory Drug Development, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
Michael FreissmuthInstitute of Pharmacology, Center of Physiology and Pharmacology and Gaston H. Glock Research Laboratories for Exploratory Drug Development, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
Sonja SucicInstitute of Pharmacology, Center of Physiology and Pharmacology and Gaston H. Glock Research Laboratories for Exploratory Drug Development, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: sonja.sucic@meduniwien.ac.at.
Medical University of Vienna · AT

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF F 3510Austrian Science Fund FWF F 3524Austrian Science Fund FWF P 27518
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The key role of monoamine transporters is to take up neurotransmitters from the synaptic cleft and rapidly terminate neurotransmission. Monoamine transporters begin their journey by folding in the endoplasmic reticulum. Upon achieving their natively-folded state, the oligomerized transporters engage the coat protein complex II machinery and exit the endoplasmic reticulum compartment in a concentrative fashion. The transporters are subsequently sorted in the endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate complex and the Golgi apparatus, prior to reaching their pivotal site of action at the plasma membrane. Stringent quality-control mechanisms ensure that only the correctly-folded protein cargo departs the endoplasmic reticulum. Genetic point mutations in the coding sequences of monoamine transporters can trigger severe physiologic deficiencies by inducing folding defects. Protein misfolding precludes the delivery of functional monoamine transporters to the cell surface. Chemical- and/or pharmacological-chaperone molecules, which facilitate folding, have proven effective in restoring the activity of several misfolded pathological variants of monoamine transporters.

Indexed as

AnimalsEndoplasmic ReticulumHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyNeurotransmitter Transport ProteinsProtein FoldingSmall Molecule LibrariesNeurotransmitter Transport ProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesEndoplasmic reticulum (ER) quality controlMonoamine transportersPharmacochaperoningProtein folding

Identifiers

PMID28890376
PMCPMC5679356
OpenAlexW2752737038

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