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ReviewMolecular cancer2018

The curious case of vacuolar ATPase: regulation of signaling pathways.

Sahithi Pamarthy, Arpita Kulshrestha, Gajendra K Katara, Kenneth D Beaman

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Review in Molecular cancer, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
115citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

115 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 180 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  13. A novel transgenic reporter of extracellular acidification in zebrafish elucidates skeletal muscle T-tubule pH regulation.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2025
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  15. Macrophage vacuolar ATPase (v-ATPase) function controlsbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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55 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sahithi PamarthyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, 3333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA.
Arpita KulshresthaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, 3333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA.
Gajendra K KataraDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, 3333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA.
Kenneth D BeamanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, 3333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA. kenneth.beaman@rosalindfranklin.edu.
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Vacuolar ATPase (V-ATPase) is a proton pump responsible for controlling the intracellular and extracellular pH of cells. The structure of V-ATPase has been highly conserved among all eukaryotic cells and is involved in diverse functions across species. V-ATPase is best known for its acidification of endosomes and lysosomes and is also important for luminal acidification of specialized cells. Several reports have suggested the involvement of V-ATPase in maintaining an alkaline intracellular and acidic extracellular pH thereby aiding in proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells respectively. Increased expression of V-ATPase and relocation to the plasma membrane aids in cancer modulates key tumorigenic cell processes like autophagy, Warburg effect, immunomoduation, drug resistance and most importantly cancer cell signaling. In this review, we discuss the direct role of V-ATPase in acidification and indirect regulation of signaling pathways, particularly Notch Signaling.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsBiomarkersDisease SusceptibilityEndosomesExtracellular SpaceHumansHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationIntracellular SpaceLysosomesVacuolar Proton-Translocating ATPasesVacuolesBiomarkersVacuolar Proton-Translocating ATPasesAutophagyCancerDrug resistancemTORNotch signalingTGF-βV-ATPaseWarburg effectWNT

Identifiers

PMID29448933
PMCPMC5815226
OpenAlexW2796022005

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