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ReviewBiophysical reviews2018

Toward an understanding of biochemical equilibria within living cells.

Germán Rivas, Allen P Minton

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Review in Biophysical reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing 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

43 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

2 authors.

Germán RivasCentro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040, Madrid, Spain. grivas@cib.csic.es.
Allen P MintonLaboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-1247

Funding

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas BFU2014-52070-C2-2-)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Four types of environmental effects that can affect macromolecular reactions in a living cell are defined: nonspecific intermolecular interactions, side reactions, partitioning between microenvironments, and surface interactions. Methods for investigating these interactions and their influence on target reactions in vitro are reviewed. Methods employed to characterize conformational and association equilibria in vivo are reviewed and difficulties in their interpretation cataloged. It is concluded that, in order to be amenable to unambiguous interpretation, in vivo studies must be complemented by in vitro studies carried out in well-characterized and controllable media designed to contain key elements of selected intracellular microenvironments.

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Association equilibriaConformational equilibriaExcluded volumeIntermolecular interactionsMacromolecular crowdingPartitioningSurface interactions

Identifiers

PMID29235084
PMCPMC5899707

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