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ReviewCells2021

Renalase: A Multi-Functional Signaling Molecule with Roles in Gastrointestinal Disease.

Thomas C Pointer, Fred S Gorelick, Gary V Desir

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Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. ComprehensiveOncology reports · 2025
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Low Renalase Levels in Newly Diagnosed CML: Dysregulation Sensitive to Modulation by Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2024
    Article
  5. Review
  6. Plasma renalase levels are associated with the development of acute pancreatitis.Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.] · 2023
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Thomas C PointerDepartment of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT 06510, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8133-697X
Fred S GorelickDepartment of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Gary V DesirDepartment of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT 06510, USA.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Renalase inhibition for treatment of unresectable melanomaR01CA216846 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI DESIR, GARY V., KLUGER, HARRIET M. · 2017 to 2021
$2.4M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NCI NIH HHS CA216846U.S. Department of Defense WH1910439U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs BX003250
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The survival factor renalase (RNLS) is a recently discovered secretory protein with potent prosurvival and anti-inflammatory effects. Several evolutionarily conserved RNLS domains are critical to its function. These include a 20 aa site that encodes for its prosurvival effects. Its prosurvival effects are shown in GI disease models including acute cerulein pancreatitis. In rodent models of pancreatic cancer and human cancer tissues, increased RNLS expression promotes cancer cell survival but shortens life expectancy. This 37 kD protein can regulate cell signaling as an extracellular molecule and probably also at intracellular sites. Extracellular RNLS signals through a specific plasma membrane calcium export transporter; this interaction appears most relevant to acute injury and cancer. Preliminary studies using RNLS agonists and antagonists, as well as various preclinical disease models, suggest that the immunologic and prosurvival effects of RNLS will be relevant to diverse pathologies that include acute organ injuries and select cancers. Future studies should define the roles of RNLS in intestinal diseases, characterizing the RNLS-activated pathways linked to cell survival and developing therapeutic agents that can increase or decrease RNLS in relevant clinical settings.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsGastrointestinal DiseasesGastrointestinal TractHumansMonoamine OxidaseProtein IsoformsMonoamine OxidaseProtein Isoformsrenalasecell survivalinflammationpancreatic cancerpancreatitisPMCA4bprotein kinaserenalasesignaling

Identifiers

PMID34440775
PMCPMC8391834

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