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ReviewFrontiers in molecular biosciences2018

Importance of Functional Loss of FUS in FTLD/ALS.

Shinsuke Ishigaki, Gen Sobue

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Review in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
61citing papers in PubMed
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 93 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shinsuke IshigakiDepartment of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Gen SobueBrain and Mind Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Nagoya University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fused in sarcoma (FUS) is an RNA binding protein that regulates RNA metabolism including alternative splicing, transcription, and RNA transportation. FUS is genetically and pathologically involved in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Multiple lines of evidence across diverse models suggest that functional loss of FUS can lead to neuronal dysfunction and/or neuronal cell death. Loss of FUS in the nucleus can impair alternative splicing and/or transcription, whereas dysfunction of FUS in the cytoplasm, especially in the dendritic spines of neurons, can cause mRNA destabilization. Alternative splicing of the

Indexed as

FTLD/ALSFUSGluA1SynGAPtau

Identifiers

PMID29774215
PMCPMC5943504
OpenAlexW2802669613

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