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ReviewThe Journal of cell biology1996

Switches, latches, and amplifiers: common themes of G proteins and molecular motors.

R D Vale

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In one paragraph

Review in The Journal of cell biology, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
88citing papers in PubMed
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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

88 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mechanism and regulation of kinesin motors.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
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  12. Elongation factor-Tu can repetitively engage aminoacyl-tRNA within the ribosome during the proofreading stage of tRNA selection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  14. Shaft Function of Kinesin-1's α4 Helix in the Processive Movement.Cellular and molecular bioengineering · 2019
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  15. Comparative structural dynamic analysis of GTPases.PLoS computational biology · 2018
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  16. Molecular switch-like regulation enables global subunit coordination in a viral ring ATPase.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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28 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

1 author.

R D ValeHoward Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA. vale@phy.ucsf.edu

Funding

MICROTUBULE-BASED ORGANELLE TRANSPORTR01GM038499 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO · PI VALE, RONALD D · 1988 to 2005
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM038499
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Protein ConformationSignal TransductionAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBinding SitesCytoskeletal ProteinsGTP-Binding ProteinsKinesinsModels, MolecularModels, StructuralMyosinsProtein Structure, SecondaryRibonucleotidesCytoskeletal ProteinsGTP-Binding ProteinsKinesinsMyosinsRibonucleotides

Identifiers

PMID8896589
PMCPMC2121043

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Registered trials

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