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ReviewInorganic chemistry2019

Emerging Opportunities To Manipulate Metal Trafficking for Therapeutic Benefit.

Elizabeth W Hunsaker, Katherine J Franz

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In one paragraph

Review in Inorganic chemistry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
66citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

66 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Transmetalation in Cancer Pharmacology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  10. Metal Ion Signaling in Biomedicine.Chemical reviews · 2025
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6 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth W HunsakerDepartment of Chemistry , Duke University , French Family Science Center, 124 Science Drive , Durham , North Carolina 27708 , United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6008-8599
Katherine J FranzDepartment of Chemistry , Duke University , French Family Science Center, 124 Science Drive , Durham , North Carolina 27708 , United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9015-0998
Duke University · US

Funding

Metals, Drugs and Fungal PathogensR01GM084176 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI FRANZ, KATHERINE J. · 2008 to 2021
$4.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The indispensable requirement for metals in life processes has led to the evolution of sophisticated mechanisms that allow organisms to maintain dynamic equilibria of these ions. This dynamic control of the level, speciation, and availability of a variety of metal ions allows organisms to sustain biological processes while avoiding toxicity. When functioning properly, these mechanisms allow cells to return to their metal homeostatic set points following shifts in the metal availability or other stressors. These periods of transition, when cells are in a state of flux in which they work to regain homeostasis, present windows of opportunity to pharmacologically manipulate targets associated with metal-trafficking pathways in ways that could either facilitate a return to homeostasis and the recovery of cellular function or further push cells outside of homeostasis and into cellular distress. The purpose of this Viewpoint is to highlight emerging opportunities for chemists and chemical biologists to develop compounds to manipulate metal-trafficking processes for therapeutic benefit.

Indexed as

HomeostasisHumansMetabolic DiseasesMetalsNeoplasmsOrganic ChemicalsMetalsOrganic Chemicals

Identifiers

PMID31247859
PMCPMC7272113
OpenAlexW2951394505

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Registered trials

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