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ReviewGlycobiology2008

The mycobacterial glycopeptidolipids: structure, function, and their role in pathogenesis.

Jeffrey S Schorey, Lindsay Sweet

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Review in Glycobiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
94citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

94 citing papers in PubMed, 165 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jeffrey S SchoreyDepartment of Biological Sciences, Eck Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. Schorey.1@nd.edu
Lindsay Sweet
University of Notre Dame · US

Funding

M. avium GPLs in Macrophage Activation and VirulenceR01AI052439 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME · PI SCHOREY, JEFFREY SCOTT · 2004 to 2014
$3.4M
Macrophage signaling upon M avium infectionR01AI056979 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME · PI SCHOREY, JEFFREY SCOTT · 2004 to 2008
$1.4M
NIAID NIH HHS AI052439NIAID NIH HHS AI056979
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycopeptidolipids (GPLs) are a class of glycolipids produced by several nontuberculosis-causing members of the Mycobacterium genus including pathogenic and nonpathogenic species. GPLs are expressed in different forms with production of highly antigenic, typeable serovar-specific GPLs in members of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). M. avium and M. intracellulare, which comprise this complex, are slow-growing mycobacteria noted for producing disseminated infections in AIDS patients and pulmonary infections in non-AIDS patients. Previous studies have defined the gene cluster responsible for GPL biosynthesis and more recent work has characterized the function of the individual genes. Current research has also focused on the GPL's role in colony morphology, sliding motility, biofilm formation, immune modulation and virulence. These topics, along with new information on the enzymes involved in GPL biosynthesis, are the subject of this review.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiofilmsBiosynthetic PathwaysCarbohydrate SequenceGlycolipidsGlycopeptidesHumansModels, BiologicalMolecular Sequence DataMycobacteriumGlycolipidsGlycopeptides

Identifiers

PMID18723691
PMCPMC2733780
OpenAlexW2116106832

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