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ReviewTrends in pharmacological sciences2018

Cysteine Metabolism in Neuronal Redox Homeostasis.

Bindu D Paul, Juan I Sbodio, Solomon H Snyder

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Review in Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 163 papers.

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163citing papers in PubMed
22.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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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

163 citing papers in PubMed, 324 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bindu D PaulThe Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: bpaul8@jhmi.edu.
Juan I SbodioThe Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Solomon H SnyderThe Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: ssnyder@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

NEUROCHEMICAL ACTIONS OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGSR01MH018501 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SNYDER, SOLOMON H. · 1985 to 2019
$10.8M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH018501
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Besides its essential role in protein synthesis, cysteine plays vital roles in redox homeostasis, being a component of the major antioxidant glutathione (GSH) and a potent antioxidant by itself. In addition, cysteine undergoes a variety of post-translational modifications that modulate several physiological processes. It is becoming increasingly clear that redox-modulated events play important roles not only in peripheral tissues but also in the brain where cysteine disposition is central to these pathways. Dysregulated cysteine metabolism is associated with several neurodegenerative disorders. Accordingly, restoration of cysteine balance has therapeutic benefits. This review discusses metabolic signaling pathways pertaining to cysteine disposition in the brain under normal and pathological conditions, highlighting recent findings on cysteine metabolism during aging and in neurodegenerative conditions such as Huntington's disease (HD) and molybdenum cofactor (MoCo) deficiency (MoCD) among others.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutophagyCysteineGlutathioneHomeostasisHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuronsOxidation-ReductionProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalCysteineGlutathioneATF4cysteineHuntington’s diseaseneurodegeneration

Identifiers

PMID29530337
PMCPMC5912966
OpenAlexW2793610547

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