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ReviewMolecular cell2021

Cellular pathways influenced by protein arginine methylation: Implications for cancer.

Jian Xu, Stéphane Richard

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Review in Molecular cell, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
109citing papers in PubMed
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

109 citing papers in PubMed, 174 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jian XuCenter for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: xujian@usc.edu.
Stéphane RichardSegal Cancer Center, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, and Departments of Medicine, Human Genetics, and Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada. Electronic address: stephane.richard@mcgill.ca.
McGill University · CAUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

Methylation signaling in periodontal health and diseaseR01DE026468 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI XU, JIAN · 2017 to 2021
$2.4M
Protein methylation pathways that control genetic susceptibility to environmental pollutants in the occurrence of craniofacial defectsR01DE030928 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI XU, JIAN · 2021 to 2025
$2.1M
Modulation of Runx2 activity by arginine methylationR21DE028617 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI XU, JIAN · 2019 to 2020
$454k
CIHR FDN-154303NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE026468NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE030928NIDCR NIH HHS R21 DE028617
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arginine methylation is an influential post-translational modification occurring on histones, RNA binding proteins, and many other cellular proteins, affecting their function by altering their protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions. Recently, a wealth of information has been gathered, implicating protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs), enzymes that deposit arginine methylation, in transcription, pre-mRNA splicing, DNA damage signaling, and immune signaling with major implications for cancer therapy, especially immunotherapy. This review summarizes this recent progress and the current state of PRMT inhibitors, some in clinical trials, as promising drug targets for cancer.

Indexed as

MethylationProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalAlternative SplicingAnimalsArginineB7-H1 AntigenCell CommunicationCell Line, TumorCRISPR-Cas SystemsDNA DamageDNA RepairEnzyme InhibitorsEpigenesis, GeneticHistonesHumansImmune SystemArginineB7-H1 AntigenEnzyme InhibitorsHistonesPRMT7 protein, humanProtein-Arginine N-MethyltransferasesRNA, Messengerarginine methylationDNA damage signalingepigeneticsimmunotherapypre-mRNA splicingPRMTsS-adenosylmethioninesmall-molecule inhibitorstranscription

Identifiers

PMID34619091
PMCPMC8571027
OpenAlexW3203019814

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