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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Unnexin is a protein subunit of a large-pore channel expressed by unicellular organisms.

Juan Güiza, Francisco Solís, Bernardita Valenzuela, Duxan Arancibia, Pedro Zamorano, Jorge González, Jonathan Saavedra, Alan Neely, Magdiel Salgado, Agustín D Martínez and 2 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Juan GüizaLaboratory of Gap Junction Proteins and Parasitic Diseases (GaPaL), Instituto Antofagasta, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile.
Francisco SolísLaboratorio de Microorganismos Extremófilos, Instituto Antofagasta, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile.
Bernardita ValenzuelaLaboratorio de Microorganismos Extremófilos, Instituto Antofagasta, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile.
Duxan ArancibiaLaboratorio de Microorganismos Extremófilos, Instituto Antofagasta, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile.
Pedro ZamoranoLaboratorio de Microorganismos Extremófilos, Instituto Antofagasta, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile.
Jorge GonzálezDepartamento de Tecnología Médica, Unidad de Parasitología Molecular, Facultad Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile.
Jonathan SaavedraInstituto de Neurociencias, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias de Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2381850, Chile.
Alan NeelyInstituto de Neurociencias, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias de Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2381850, Chile.ORCID 0000-0002-6007-2159
Magdiel SalgadoInstituto de Neurociencias, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias de Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2381850, Chile.
Agustín D MartínezInstituto de Neurociencias, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias de Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2381850, Chile.
Juan C SáezInstituto de Neurociencias, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias de Valparaíso, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso 2381850, Chile.
José L VegaLaboratory of Gap Junction Proteins and Parasitic Diseases (GaPaL), Instituto Antofagasta, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta 1240000, Chile.
Universidad de Antofagasta · CLUniversity of Valparaíso · CL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells of vertebrate and invertebrate organisms express proteins specialized in membrane channel-based cell-cell communication that are absent in unicellular organisms. We recently described the prediction of some members of the large-pore channel family in kinetoplastids, consisting of proteins called unnexins, which share several structural features with innexin and pannexin proteins. Here, we demonstrated that the unnexin1 protein (Unx1) is delivered to the cell membrane, displaying a topology consisting of four transmembrane domains with C and N termini on the cytoplasmic side and form large-pore channels that are permeable to small molecules. Low extracellular Ca

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Protein SubunitsCell MembraneCytoplasmMorpholinosPhylogenyMorpholinosProtein Subunitsdiffusional transportgatinglarge membrane poreTrypanosoma cruziunicellular organism

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PMID37487087
PMCPMC10400985
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