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ReviewBiochemical pharmacology2021

Untangling the web of 5-lipoxygenase-derived products from a molecular and structural perspective: The battle between pro- and anti-inflammatory lipid mediators.

Nathaniel C Gilbert, Marcia E Newcomer, Oliver Werz

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Review in Biochemical pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nathaniel C GilbertDepartment of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Electronic address: ngilbert@lsu.edu.
Marcia E NewcomerDepartment of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Oliver WerzDepartment of Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Louisiana State University · USFriedrich Schiller University Jena · DE

Funding

Pregnane and Glycosides and Obesity/llya RaskinP50AT002776 · NCCIH · LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR · PI RASKIN, ILYA · 2005 to 2019
$24.9M
The Structural Basis for Control of 5-Lipoxgenease ActivityR01HL107887 · NHLBI · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE · PI NEWCOMER, MARCIA E. · 2011 to 2014
$1.4M
Conformational Flexibility of Lipoxygenases and its Role in Regulation and Substrate Acquisition.R15GM143724 · NIGMS · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE · PI GILBERT, NATHANIEL · 2021 to 2021
$444k
NCCIH NIH HHS P50 AT002776NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL107887NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM143724
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arachidonic acid (AA) is the precursor to leukotrienes (LT), potent mediators of the inflammatory response. In the 35 + years since cysteinyl-LTs were reported to mediate antigen-induced constriction of bronchi in tissue from asthma patients, numerous cellular responses evoked by the LTs, such as chemoattraction and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) activation, have been elucidated and revealed a potential for 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) as a promising drug target that goes beyond asthma. We describe herein early work identifying 5-LOX as the key enzyme that initiates LT biosynthesis and the discovery of its membrane-embedded helper protein required to execute the two-step reaction that transforms AA to the progenitor leukotriene A

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsArachidonate 5-LipoxygenaseGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicHumansInflammationLipid MetabolismLipidsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsArachidonate 5-LipoxygenaseLipids

Identifiers

PMID34487716
PMCPMC8865081
OpenAlexW3196809854

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