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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Mechanistic studies of a small-molecule modulator of SMN2 splicing.

Jingxin Wang, Peter G Schultz, Kristen A Johnson

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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79citing papers in PubMed
8.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 125 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jingxin WangCalifornia Institute for Biomedical Research, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Peter G SchultzCalifornia Institute for Biomedical Research, La Jolla, CA 92037; schultz@scripps.edu kjohnson@calibr.org.
Kristen A JohnsonCalifornia Institute for Biomedical Research, La Jolla, CA 92037; schultz@scripps.edu kjohnson@calibr.org.
California Institute for Biomedical Research · USScripps Research Institute · US

Funding

An Orally Bioavailable Drug Candidate for Spinal Muscular AtrophyR01NS094721 · NINDS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI JOHNSON, KRISTEN A · 2016 to 2019
$2.1M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS094721
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RG-7916 is a first-in-class drug candidate for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) that functions by modulating pre-mRNA splicing of the

Indexed as

Alternative SplicingDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA HelicasesExonsHumansMuscular Atrophy, SpinalNucleic Acid ConformationProteomicsRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA PrecursorsSmall Molecule LibrariesSurvival of Motor Neuron 2 ProteinTrans-ActivatorsDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA HelicasesFUBP1 protein, humanKHSRP protein, humanRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA PrecursorsSmall Molecule LibrariesSMN2 protein, humanSurvival of Motor Neuron 2 ProteinTrans-Activatorschemical proteomicsRG-7916RNA bindingRNA splicingspinal muscular atrophy

Identifiers

PMID29712837
PMCPMC5960314
OpenAlexW2801416250

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