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ReviewEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society2021

The role of mucin 1 in respiratory diseases.

Beatriz Ballester, Javier Milara, Julio Cortijo

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Review in European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Mucins and Respiratory Virus Infection.Annual review of virology · 2026
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  12. MUC1 in the upper-lower airway inflammatory continuum: an endotype-centered perspective.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025
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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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Beatriz BallesterDivision of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA beatriz.2.ballester-llobell@cuanschutz.edu.
Javier MilaraCIBERES, Health Institute Carlos III, Valencia, Spain.
Julio CortijoCIBERES, Health Institute Carlos III, Valencia, Spain.
Instituto de Salud Carlos III · ESUniversitat Jaume I · ESUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent evidence has demonstrated that mucin 1 (MUC1) is involved in many pathological processes that occur in the lung. MUC1 is a transmembrane protein mainly expressed by epithelial and hematopoietic cells. It has a receptor-like structure, which can sense the external environment and activate intracellular signal transduction pathways through its cytoplasmic domain. The extracellular domain of MUC1 can be released to the external environment, thus acting as a decoy barrier to mucosal pathogens, as well as serving as a serum biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of several respiratory diseases such as lung cancer and interstitial lung diseases. Furthermore, bioactivated MUC1-cytoplasmic tail (CT) has been shown to act as an anti-inflammatory molecule in several airway infections and mediates the expression of anti-inflammatory genes in lung diseases such as chronic rhinosinusitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and severe asthma. Bioactivated MUC1-CT has also been reported to interact with several effectors linked to cellular transformation, contributing to the progression of respiratory diseases such as lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis. In this review, we summarise the current knowledge of MUC1 as a promising biomarker and drug target for lung disease.

Indexed as

AsthmaMucin-1Pulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveAnimalsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsHumansSignal TransductionAnti-Inflammatory AgentsMUC1 protein, humanMucin-1

Identifiers

PMID33536260
PMCPMC9488590
OpenAlexW3127224022

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