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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2021

Consequences of post-translational modifications on amyloid proteins as revealed by protein semisynthesis.

Stuart P Moon, Aaron T Balana, Matthew R Pratt

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. amyloid-predict and LLPS-predict: Predicting phase separation propensities in the intrinsically disordered proteome.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  12. Chemical Synthesis of Microtubule-Associated Protein Tau.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Stuart P MoonDepartments of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Aaron T BalanaDepartments of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Matthew R PrattDepartments of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA; Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA. Electronic address: matthew.pratt@usc.edu.
University of Southern California · US

Funding

Functional Analysis of O-GlcNAc using Synthetic Protein ChemistryR01GM114537 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI PRATT, MATTHEW ROBERT · 2015 to 2024
$3.1M
CBI: Chemistry Biology InterfaceT32GM118289 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI FORSBURG, SUSAN L · 2016 to 2020
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM114537NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM118289
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alterations to the global levels of certain types of post-translational modifications (PTMs) are commonly observed in neurodegenerative diseases. The net influence of these PTM changes to the progression of these diseases can be deduced from cellular and animal studies. However, at the molecular level, how one PTM influences a given protein is not uniform and cannot be easily generalized from systemic observations, thus requiring protein-specific interrogations. Given that protein aggregation is a shared pathological hallmark in neurodegeneration, it is important to understand how these PTMs affect the behavior of amyloid-forming proteins. For this purpose, protein semisynthesis techniques, largely via native chemical and expressed protein ligation, have been widely used. These approaches have thus far led to our increased understanding of the site-specific consequences of certain PTMs to amyloidogenic proteins' endogenous function, their propensity for aggregation, and the structural variations these PTMs induce toward the aggregates formed.

Indexed as

Amyloidogenic ProteinsNeurodegenerative DiseasesAnimalsProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalAmyloidogenic ProteinsAmyloidsNative chemical ligationNeurodegenerative diseasePosttranslational modificationsProtein synthesis

Identifiers

PMID34175787
PMCPMC8585673
OpenAlexW3175975880

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