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ReviewChannels (Austin, Tex.)2021

Structure and Function of the Bestrophin family of calcium-activated chloride channels.

Aaron P Owji, Alec Kittredge, Yu Zhang, Tingting Yang

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Review in Channels (Austin, Tex.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. The short wavelength electro-oculogram (SW-EOG) in best disease: preliminary results.Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology · 2026
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  10. Electronic Polarizability Tunes the Function of the Human Bestrophin 1 ClJournal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  12. Isogenic iPSC-derivedFrontiers in neuroscience · 2025
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  15. Electronic Polarizability Tunes the Function of the Human Bestrophin 1 ClbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  16. BEST4American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2024
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  19. GABA Release from Astrocytes in Health and Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aaron P OwjiDepartment of Pharmacology, Columbia University, NY, USA.
Alec KittredgeDepartment of Pharmacology, Columbia University, NY, USA.
Yu ZhangDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, NY, USA.
Tingting YangDepartment of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, NY, USA.
Columbia University · US

Funding

Therapeutic gene editing and multimodal imaging in juvenile macular degeneration R24EY028758 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI AUDO , ISABELLE, SPARROW, JANET RUTHE · 2020 to 2024
$10.9M
Mechanistic Characterization of Calcium-Activated Chloride Channels in Retinal Pigment EpitheliumR01GM127652 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI YANG, TINGTING · 2018 to 2022
$1.7M
Structural analysis of the bestrophin anion channel Best2F31EY030763 · NEI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI OWJI, AARON PAUL · 2019 to 2021
$137k
NEI NIH HHS F31 EY030763NEI NIH HHS R24 EY028758NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM127652
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bestrophins are a family of calcium-activated chloride channels (CaCCs) with relevance to human physiology and a myriad of eye diseases termed "bestrophinopathies". Since the identification of bestrophins as CaCCs nearly two decades ago, extensive studies from electrophysiological and structural biology perspectives have sought to define their key channel features including calcium sensing, gating, inactivation, and anion selectivity. The initial X-ray crystallography studies on the prokaryotic homolog of Best1,

Indexed as

CalciumChloride ChannelsAnimalsBestrophinsCattleCrystallography, X-RayElectrophysiological PhenomenaEye ProteinsHumansBEST1 protein, humanBestrophinsCalciumChloride ChannelsEye ProteinsBest1Best2Bestrophin functionBestrophinsbestrophin structure

Identifiers

PMID34612806
PMCPMC8496536
OpenAlexW3201715324

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