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ReviewCurrent opinion in pharmacology2021

Lynx1 prototoxins: critical accessory proteins of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

Julie M Miwa

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Review in Current opinion in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Molecular organization of central cholinergic synapses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Large-scale deep proteomic analysis in Alzheimer's disease brain regions across race and ethnicity.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024
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  9. Orientational Preferences of GPI-Anchored Ly6/uPAR Proteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  11. ReducedFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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  14. α9-Containing Nicotinic Receptors in Cancer.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Julie M MiwaLehigh University, Department of Biological Sciences, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA, United States. Electronic address: jmm312@lehigh.edu.
Lehigh University · US

Funding

Relevance of α-Conotoxin MII Sensitive Nicotinic Receptor Subtypes to Nicotine AddictionR01DA042749 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI WHITEAKER, PAUL · 2017 to 2021
$2.8M
Prototoxin Effects on Nicotinic Receptor FunctionR01DA043567 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI MIWA, JULIE M., WHITEAKER, PAUL · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
Algorithmic identification of binding specificity mechanisms in proteinsR01GM123131 · NIGMS · LEHIGH UNIVERSITY · PI CHEN, BRIAN YUAN · 2019 to 2022
$1.1M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA042749NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA043567NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123131
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nicotinic receptors of the cholinergic system are ligand-gated ion channels, responding to the excitatory neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, and the addictive component of tobacco, nicotine. They help to transduce salient information in the environment by activating specific neural circuitry in normal and disease states. While nicotinic receptors are promising neurological and neuropsychiatric disorder targets, they have fallen out of favor after several late-stage clinical failures. Targeting the complex of the nicotinic receptor, including lynx1 accessory proteins, could be the key to unlocking the intractable nAChR for therapeutic development. Lynx1 binds to the extracellular face of the nAChR and acts as a critical modulator, suppressing memory, learning, and plasticity. Lynx1 removal in animal models leads to memory and plasticity enhancements, some of which have therapeutic relevance for neuropsychiatric and neurological disease. A review of the lynx1 accessory modulator and its role in modulating neuronal nAChRs will be discussed.

Indexed as

Receptors, NicotinicAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsLearningNeuronsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingReceptors, Nicotinic

Identifiers

PMID33254061
PMCPMC8771676
OpenAlexW3108105258

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