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ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry2018

Copper signaling in the brain and beyond.

Cheri M Ackerman, Christopher J Chang

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Review in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers.

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89citing papers in PubMed
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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

89 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cuprous Ions Binding to Cytosine and Guanine Oligonucleotides.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  3. Intermediate CuChemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
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  12. Disruption of Copper Redox Balance and Dysfunction underEnvironment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2025
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  16. A histochemical approach to activity-based copper sensing reveals cuproplasia-dependent vulnerabilities in cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Cheri M AckermanDepartments of Chemistry, Berkeley, California 94720-1460.
Christopher J ChangDepartments of Chemistry, Berkeley, California 94720-1460; Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley, California 94720-1460; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-1460; Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720. Electronic address: chrischang@berkeley.edu.

Funding

Molecular Imaging Probes To Study Redox BiologyR01GM079465 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Christopher J. Chang · 2006 to 2026
$7.8M
Univ of Calif Berkeley Chemistry-Biology Interface ProgramT32GM066698 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI CHANG, CHRISTOPHER J., FRANCIS, MATTHEW B · 2004 to 2023
$7.5M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079465NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM066698
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transition metals have been recognized and studied primarily in the context of their essential roles as structural and metabolic cofactors for biomolecules that compose living systems. More recently, an emerging paradigm of transition-metal signaling, where dynamic changes in transitional metal pools can modulate protein function, cell fate, and organism health and disease, has broadened our view of the potential contributions of these essential nutrients in biology. Using copper as a canonical example of transition-metal signaling, we highlight key experiments where direct measurement and/or visualization of dynamic copper pools, in combination with biochemical, physiological, and behavioral studies, have deciphered sources, targets, and physiological effects of copper signals.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainCopperHumansSignal TransductionCoppercancer biologycopper signalingcopper transportimmunologylipolysismetal homeostasisneurobiology

Identifiers

PMID29084848
PMCPMC5880129

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