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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Selective Aster inhibitors distinguish vesicular and nonvesicular sterol transport mechanisms.

Xu Xiao, Youngjae Kim, Beatriz Romartinez-Alonso, Kristupas Sirvydis, Daniel S Ory, John W R Schwabe, Michael E Jung, Peter Tontonoz

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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.

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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Stay in touch with the endoplasmic reticulum.Science China. Life sciences · 2024
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  3. Design and structural basis of selective nonsteroidal inhibitors of aster cholesterol trafficking.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. Nonvesicular cholesterol transport in physiology.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025
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  12. Cholesterol binding to VCAM-1 promotes vascular inflammation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  19. Cholesterol Transport to the Endoplasmic Reticulum.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Xu XiaoDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095.ORCID 0000-0002-5033-7627
Youngjae KimDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095.ORCID 0000-0003-2122-6562
Beatriz Romartinez-AlonsoInstitute of Structural and Chemical Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3061-6696
Kristupas SirvydisInstitute of Structural and Chemical Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6337-3504
Daniel S OryDepartment of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
John W R SchwabeInstitute of Structural and Chemical Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.
Michael E JungDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Peter TontonozDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095; ptontonoz@mednet.ucla.edu.
University of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of Leicester · GBWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

Understanding the Influence of Lipid Homeostasis on T cell FunctionP01HL146358 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI TONTONOZ, PETER J · 2019 to 2023
$11.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL146358
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Aster proteins (encoded by the

Indexed as

AndrostenesAnimalsBiological TransportCarrier ProteinsCell MembraneCHO CellsCholesterolCholesterol, LDLCricetulusEndoplasmic ReticulumHumansHydroxycholesterolsIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsMembrane GlycoproteinsMembrane ProteinsNiemann-Pick C1 Protein20-hydroxycholesterol3-beta-(2-(diethylamino)ethoxy)androst-5-en-17-oneAndrostenesCarrier ProteinsCholesterolCholesterol, LDLGRAMD1A protein, humanGRAMD1B protein, humanHydroxycholesterolsIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsMembrane GlycoproteinsMembrane ProteinsNiemann-Pick C1 ProteinSterol Regulatory Element Binding Protein 2Sterolscholesterollipid metabolismlipid transport

Identifiers

PMID33376205
PMCPMC7812747
OpenAlexW3115143220

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