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ReviewACS chemical neuroscience2019

SQSTM1/p62: A Potential Target for Neurodegenerative Disease.

Shifan Ma, Insiya Y Attarwala, Xiang-Qun Xie

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Review in ACS chemical neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 99 papers.

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99citing papers in PubMed
12.1field-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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

99 citing papers in PubMed, 188 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.

Shifan Ma
Insiya Y Attarwala
Xiang-Qun XieID4Pharma LLC , Bridgeville , Pennsylvania 15017 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6881-6175
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

NIDA Center of Excellence OF Computational Drug Abuse Research (CDAR)P30DA035778 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BAHAR, IVET, XIE, XIANG-QUN · 2014 to 2018
$5.4M
SmartAD for Intelligent Alzheimer’s Disease(AD) Personalized Combination TherapyR56AG074951 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI XIE, XIANG-QUN, XUE, YING · 2022 to 2023
$791k
NIA NIH HHS R56 AG074951NIDA NIH HHS P30 DA035778
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a progressive loss of brain function, affect the lives of millions of individuals worldwide. The complexity of the brain poses a challenge for scientists trying to map the biochemical and physiological pathways to identify areas of pathological errors. Brain samples of patients with neurodegenerative diseases have been shown to contain large amounts of misfolded and abnormally aggregated proteins, resulting in dysfunction in certain brain centers. Removal of these abnormal molecules is essential in maintaining protein homeostasis and overall neuronal health. Macroautophagy is a major route by which cells achieve this. Administration of certain autophagy-enhancing compounds has been shown to provide therapeutic effects for individuals with neurodegenerative conditions. SQSTM1/p62 is a scaffold protein closely involved in the macroautophagy process. p62 functions to anchor the ubiquitinated proteins to the autophagosome membrane, promoting degradation of unwanted molecules. Modulators targeting p62 to induce autophagy and promote its protective pathways for aggregate protein clearance have high potential in the treatment of these conditions. Additionally, causal relationships have been found between errors in regulation of SQSTM1/p62 and the development of a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Furthermore, SQSTM1/p62 also serves as a signaling hub for multiple pathways associated with neurodegeneration, providing a potential therapeutic target in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. However, rational design of a p62-oriented autophagy modulator that can balance the negative and positive functions of multiple domains in p62 requires further efforts in the exploration of the protein structure and pathological basis.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutophagyBrainHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesSequestosome-1 ProteinSignal TransductionSequestosome-1 ProteinSQSTM1 protein, humanautophagyneurodegenerative diseasesSQSTM1/p62

Identifiers

PMID30657305
PMCPMC6712989
OpenAlexW2910978113

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