Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29272116›Full record

ReviewChemical reviews2018

Eight Kinetically Stable but Thermodynamically Activated Molecules that Power Cell Metabolism.

Christopher T Walsh, Benjamin P Tu, Yi Tang

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 121 papers.

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121citing 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

121 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Christopher T WalshStanford University Chemistry, Engineering, and Medicine for Human Health (ChEM-H), Stanford University , 443 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305-4125, United States.
Benjamin P TuDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, TX 75390, United States.
Yi TangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California , Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1597-0141

Funding

MIRA: Enzymology and Self-Resistance of Natural Product BiosynthesisR35GM118056 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Yi Tang · 2016 to 2026
$6.1M
METABOLIC SIGNALS DRIVING CELL GROWTH & PROLIFERATIONR01GM094314 · NIGMS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI TU, BENJAMIN P · 2010 to 2019
$3.2M
Targeting Acetyl-CoA Metabolism for the Discovery of New Anti-Cancer TherapeuticsR01CA185169 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI MCKNIGHT, STEVEN L, TU, BENJAMIN P · 2014 to 2018
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA185169NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM094314NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118056
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contemporary analyses of cell metabolism have called out three metabolites: ATP, NADH, and acetyl-CoA, as sentinel molecules whose accumulation represent much of the purpose of the catabolic arms of metabolism and then drive many anabolic pathways. Such analyses largely leave out how and why ATP, NADH, and acetyl-CoA (Figure 1 ) at the molecular level play such central roles. Yet, without those insights into why cells accumulate them and how the enabling properties of these key metabolites power much of cell metabolism, the underlying molecular logic remains mysterious. Four other metabolites, S-adenosylmethionine, carbamoyl phosphate, UDP-glucose, and Δ

Indexed as

Metabolic Networks and PathwaysThermodynamicsAcetyl Coenzyme AAdenosineAdenosine TriphosphateGlucoseIsomerismKineticsNADNADPPhosphorus CompoundsProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalS-AdenosylmethionineAcetyl Coenzyme AAdenosineAdenosine TriphosphateGlucoseNADNADPPhosphorus CompoundsS-Adenosylmethionine

Identifiers

PMID29272116
PMCPMC5831524

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