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ArticleTheranostics2018

Drug Repurposing Screening Identifies Tioconazole as an ATG4 Inhibitor that Suppresses Autophagy and Sensitizes Cancer Cells to Chemotherapy.

Pei-Feng Liu, Kun-Lin Tsai, Chien-Jen Hsu, Wei-Lun Tsai, Jin-Shiung Cheng, Hsueh-Wei Chang, Chung-Wai Shiau, Yih-Gang Goan, Ho-Hsing Tseng, Chih-Hsuan Wu and 3 more

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Article in Theranostics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

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82citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

82 citing papers in PubMed, 138 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

13 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Pei-Feng LiuDepartment of Medical Education and Research, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Kun-Lin TsaiInstitute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Chien-Jen HsuDepartment of Medical Education and Research, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Wei-Lun TsaiDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Jin-Shiung ChengDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Hsueh-Wei ChangDepartment of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Chung-Wai ShiauInstitute of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yih-Gang GoanDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Ho-Hsing TsengDepartment of Medical Education and Research, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Chih-Hsuan WuDepartment of Medical Education and Research, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
John C ReedSanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Program on Apoptosis and Cell Death Research, and Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Lee-Wei YangInstitute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Chih-Wen ShuDepartment of Medical Education and Research, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital · TWKaohsiung Medical University · TWNational Center for Theoretical Sciences · TWNational Tsing Hua University · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWSanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsAutophagyAutophagy-Related ProteinsBinding SitesCysteine Proteinase InhibitorsDrug Resistance, NeoplasmDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorFemaleHCT116 CellsHumansImidazolesMiceMice, NudeProtein BindingAntineoplastic AgentsAutophagy-Related ProteinsCysteine Proteinase InhibitorsImidazolestioconazoleATG4 and autophagy inhibitory drugcancer therapydockingDrug repurposing screenmolecular dynamics simulations.

Identifiers

PMID29344310
PMCPMC5771097
OpenAlexW2779353931

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