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ArticleThe Biochemical journal2006

Peptide inhibitors MAP the way towards fighting anthrax pathogenesis.

Aimee M DeCathelineau, Gary M Bokoch

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Article in The Biochemical journal, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 48% 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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aimee M DeCathelineauDepartment of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Gary M Bokoch
Scripps Research Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pathogenesis of anthrax is such that unless antibiotic treatment is initiated at an early stage in the disease, it is ineffective against the bacteria-induced toxaemia that subverts the immune response, inflicts massive tissue damage and is ultimately the major factor contributing to death during anthrax infection. As current events have demonstrated the feasibility of the use of anthrax as a bioterrorism agent, and exemplified the difficulty of treating the ensuing infection, inhibition of anthrax toxin has become a major focus of research for the design of antitoxin therapeutics. In this issue of Biochemical Journal, Bracci and co-workers describe the discovery by competitive screening of a phage-display library of a peptide inhibitor of anthrax toxin assembly that shows great promise towards the treatment of anthrax.

Indexed as

Drug Evaluation, PreclinicalAnthraxAntigens, BacterialBacillus anthracisBacterial ToxinsPeptidesanthrax toxinAntigens, BacterialBacterial ToxinsPeptides

Identifiers

PMID16541485
PMCPMC1409691
OpenAlexW2033868092

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