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ArticleCell2017

The Human Knockout Gene CLYBL Connects Itaconate to Vitamin B

Hongying Shen, Gregory C Campanello, Daniel Flicker, Zenon Grabarek, Junchi Hu, Cheng Luo, Ruma Banerjee, Vamsi K Mootha

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Article in Cell, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers.

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84citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

84 citing papers in PubMed, 148 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Humanized Extracellular Vesicles for Efficient RNA Delivery.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  16. CLYBL averts vitamin BNature chemical biology · 2025
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  17. Recycling for a cleaner metabolism.Nature chemical biology · 2025
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  18. Alveolar and Bone Marrow-derived Macrophages Differ in Metabolism and Glutamine Utilization.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hongying ShenHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA.
Gregory C CampanelloDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Daniel FlickerHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA.
Zenon GrabarekHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA.
Junchi HuDrug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
Cheng LuoDrug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
Ruma BanerjeeDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Vamsi K MoothaHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA. Electronic address: vamsi@hms.harvard.edu.
Broad Institute · USChinese Academy of Sciences · CNUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

Chemical Biology of Mitochondria and DiabetesR24DK080261 · NIDDK · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI SPIEGELMAN, BRUCE M. · 2007 to 2016
$13.9M
REACTION MECHANISMS OF MAMMALIAN B12-DEPENDENT ENZYMESR01DK045776 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI RUMA V BANERJEE · 1998 to 2026
$9.7M
Mitochondrial Parts, Pathways, and PathogenesisR35GM122455 · NIGMS · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI MOOTHA, VAMSI KRISHNA · 2017 to 2021
$4.0M
An integrated approach to the study of mitochondrial vitamin B12 pathway and type II fatty acid synthesisK99GM124296 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SHEN, HONGYING · 2017 to 2018
$180k
Structural Enzymology of Mitochondrial B12 Trafficking ProteinsF32GM113405 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CAMPANELLO, GREGORY · 2015 to 2016
$112k
Functional characterization of a mitochondrial orphan enzymeF32GM114905 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SHEN, HONGYING · 2015 to 2016
$109k
Role of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter in brown fat physiologyF31DK107187 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI FLICKER, DANIEL ROBERT · 2015 to 2017
$93k
NIDDK NIH HHS F31 DK107187NIDDK NIH HHS R24 DK080261NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM113405NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM114905NIGMS NIH HHS K99 GM124296NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122455
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CLYBL encodes a ubiquitously expressed mitochondrial enzyme, conserved across all vertebrates, whose cellular activity and pathway assignment are unknown. Its homozygous loss is tolerated in seemingly healthy individuals, with reduced circulating B

Indexed as

Carbon-Carbon LyasesGene Knockout TechniquesHumansMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMitochondriaModels, MolecularSuccinatesVitamin B 12Carbon-Carbon LyasesCLYBL protein, humanitaconic acidSuccinatesVitamin B 12C5 metabolismcitramalyl-CoA lyaseCLYBLhuman geneticsitaconatemetabolismmitochondriasystems biologyvitamin B(12)

Identifiers

PMID29056341
PMCPMC5827971
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