Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17997127›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2007

Advantages and mechanisms of polarity and cell shape determination in Caulobacter crescentus.

Melanie L Lawler, Yves V Brun

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Review in Current opinion in microbiology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Melanie L LawlerDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-3700, USA.
Yves V Brun
Indiana University Bloomington · US

Funding

TRAINING IN GENETICST32GM007757 · NIGMS · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI KUMAR, JUSTIN P · 1985 to 2014
$8.1M
GLOBAL CONTROL OF DIFFERENTIATION IN CAULOBACTERR01GM051986 · NIGMS · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI BRUN, YVES V · 1995 to 2016
$6.0M
Mechanism of Caulobacter adhesionR01GM077648 · NIGMS · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI BRUN, YVES V · 2007 to 2011
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM07757NIGMS NIH HHS GM077648NIGMS NIH HHS GM51986NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM051986NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM077648NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007757
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tremendous diversity of bacterial cell shapes and the targeting of proteins and macromolecular complexes to specific subcellular sites strongly suggest that cellular organization provides important advantages to bacteria in their environment. Key advances have been made in the understanding of the mechanism and function of polarity and cell shape by studying the aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, whose cell cycle progression involves the ordered synthesis of different polar structures, and culminates in the biosynthesis of a thin polar cell envelope extension called the stalk. Recent results indicate that the important function of polar development is to maximize cell attachment to surfaces and to improve nutrient uptake by nonmotile and attached cells. Major progress has been made in understanding the regulatory network that coordinates polar development and morphogenesis and the role of polar localization of regulatory proteins.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialBacterial ProteinsCaulobacter crescentusCell PolarityCell Surface ExtensionsMorphogenesisBacterial Proteins

Identifiers

PMID17997127
PMCPMC2175029
OpenAlexW2013907686

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