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ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2024

Cholesterol regulation of mechanosensitive ion channels.

Katie M Beverley, Irena Levitan

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Review in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Lipid Regulation of Mechanosensitive Ion Channels.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  20. Lipid probes to study ion channels.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katie M BeverleyDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Irena LevitanDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
University of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

Cholesterol Regulation of Endothelial K+ ChannelsR01HL073965 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LEVITAN, IRENA · 2004 to 2024
$7.3M
Microvascular endothelial Kir channels in flow-induced dilation and hypertensionR01HL141120 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI LEVITAN, IRENA, PHILLIPS, SHANE A · 2019 to 2022
$2.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL073965NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL141120
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this review is to evaluate the role of cholesterol in regulating mechanosensitive ion channels. Ion channels discussed in this review are sensitive to two types of mechanical signals, fluid shear stress and/or membrane stretch. Cholesterol regulates the channels primarily in two ways: 1) indirectly through localizing the channels into cholesterol-rich membrane domains where they interact with accessory proteins and/or 2) direct binding of cholesterol to the channel at specified putative binding sites. Cholesterol may also regulate channel function via changes of the biophysical properties of the membrane bilayer. Changes in cholesterol affect both mechanosensitivity and basal channel function. We focus on four mechanosensitive ion channels in this review Piezo, Kir2, TRPV4, and VRAC channels. Piezo channels were shown to be regulated by auxiliary proteins that enhance channel function in high cholesterol domains. The direct binding mechanism was shown in Kir2.1 and TRPV4 where cholesterol inhibits channel function. Finally, cholesterol regulation of VRAC was attributed to changes in the physical properties of lipid bilayer. Additional studies should be performed to determine the physiological implications of these sterol effects in complex cellular environments.

Indexed as

cholesterolKir2.1mechanosensitive ion channelsPiezoTRPV4

Identifiers

PMID38333595
PMCPMC10850386
OpenAlexW4391227685

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