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ReviewNature chemical biology2020

The conformational cycle of a prototypical voltage-gated sodium channel.

William A Catterall, Goragot Wisedchaisri, Ning Zheng

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Review in Nature chemical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. NaBrain communications · 2026
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  6. Deciphering CaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Harnessing AlphaFold to reveal hERG channel conformational state secrets.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  10. Voltage sensors.Molecular pharmacology · 2025
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  17. Unplugging lateral fenestrations of NALCN reveals a hidden drug binding site within the pore region.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

William A CatterallDepartment of Pharmacology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. wcatt@uw.edu.
Goragot WisedchaisriDepartment of Pharmacology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6967-5925
Ning ZhengDepartment of Pharmacology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1039-1581
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Structural Basis for Antiarrhythmic Drug ActionR01HL112808 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI ZHENG, NING · 2012 to 2025
$7.8M
Sodium and Calcium Channels: Structure, Function, Neuroplasticity, and DiseaseR35NS111573 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI SCOTT, JOHN D · 2019 to 2024
$6.1M
VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE SODIUM CHANNELS IN BRAINR01NS015751 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI CATTERALL, WILLIAM A · 1985 to 2018
$6.0M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL112808NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS015751NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS111573
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electrical signaling was a dramatic development in evolution, allowing complex single-cell organisms like Paramecium to coordinate movement and early metazoans like worms and jellyfish to send regulatory signals rapidly over increasing distances. But how are electrical signals generated in biology? In fact, voltage-gated sodium channels conduct sodium currents that initiate electrical signals in all kingdoms of life, from bacteria to man. They are responsible for generating the action potential in vertebrate nerve and muscle, neuroendocrine cells, and other cell types

Indexed as

Action PotentialsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBacteriaConserved SequenceEvolution, MolecularGene ExpressionHumansModels, MolecularNAV1.5 Voltage-Gated Sodium ChannelParameciumProkaryotic CellsProtein Structure, SecondaryNAV1.5 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel

Identifiers

PMID33199904
PMCPMC7678813
OpenAlexW3099932843

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