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ArticleeLife2017

Patient-specific mutations impair BESTROPHIN1's essential role in mediating Ca

Yao Li, Yu Zhang, Yu Xu, Alec Kittredge, Nancy Ward, Shoudeng Chen, Stephen H Tsang, Tingting Yang

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yao LiJonas Children's Vision Care, and Bernard and Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Pathology & Cell Biology, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University, New York, United States.
Yu ZhangDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, United States.
Yu XuJonas Children's Vision Care, and Bernard and Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Pathology & Cell Biology, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University, New York, United States.
Alec KittredgeDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, United States.
Nancy WardDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, United States.
Shoudeng ChenMolecular Imaging Center, Department of Experimental Medicine, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China.
Stephen H TsangJonas Children's Vision Care, and Bernard and Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Pathology & Cell Biology, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University, New York, United States.
Tingting YangDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5220-588X
University of Rochester · USNewYork–Presbyterian Hospital · USSun Yat-sen University · CN

Funding

Overall EvaluationP41GM103403 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI EALICK, STEVEN E · 2012 to 2017
$14.3M
Structure-function Analysis of BestrophinsR00EY025290 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI YANG, TINGTING · 2016 to 2018
$747k
NEI NIH HHS R00 EY025290NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103403
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mutations in the human

Indexed as

Mutation, MissenseAgedBestrophinsCalciumCells, CulturedChildChloridesCrystallography, X-RayHumansIonsMaleModels, MolecularMutant ProteinsProtein ConformationRetinal DiseasesRetinal Pigment EpitheliumBEST1 protein, humanBestrophinsCalciumChloridesIonsMutant ProteinsBEST1BESTROPHIN1biophysicscalcium-activated chloride channel (CaCC)humanpatient-specific iPSC-RPEretinal diseasesretinal pigment epithelium (RPE)structural biology

Identifiers

PMID29063836
PMCPMC5655127
OpenAlexW2766170687

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