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ArticleRSC medicinal chemistry2021

Itaconate is a covalent inhibitor of the

Brooke X C Kwai, Annabelle J Collins, Martin J Middleditch, Jonathan Sperry, Ghader Bashiri, Ivanhoe K H Leung

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Article in RSC medicinal chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Itaconate and its derivatives in human health and diseases.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  10. Reprogramming immunity with itaconate: metabolic mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025
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  15. Itaconate mechanism of action and dissimilation inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Brooke X C KwaiSchool of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West Auckland 1142 New Zealand j.sperry@auckland.ac.nz i.leung@auckland.ac.nz.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6378-9633
Annabelle J CollinsSchool of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West Auckland 1142 New Zealand j.sperry@auckland.ac.nz i.leung@auckland.ac.nz.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0143-6247
Martin J MiddleditchSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West Auckland 1142 New Zealand g.bashiri@auckland.ac.nz.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7077-5897
Jonathan SperrySchool of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West Auckland 1142 New Zealand j.sperry@auckland.ac.nz i.leung@auckland.ac.nz.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7288-3939
Ghader BashiriSchool of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West Auckland 1142 New Zealand g.bashiri@auckland.ac.nz.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5092-3749
Ivanhoe K H LeungSchool of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West Auckland 1142 New Zealand j.sperry@auckland.ac.nz i.leung@auckland.ac.nz.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-6771
University of Auckland · NZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Itaconate is a mammalian antimicrobial metabolite that inhibits the isocitrate lyases (ICLs) of

Identifiers

PMID34046597
PMCPMC8130629
OpenAlexW3093800357

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