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ArticleCell host & microbe2008

Mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery?

Peter J Hume, Vassilis Koronakis

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Article in Cell host & microbe, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 39% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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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.

Peter J HumeUniversity of Cambridge, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK.
Vassilis Koronakis
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The WxxxE family of bacterial effector proteins is thought to manipulate host signaling pathways by directly mimicking activated cellular GTPases. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Ohlson et al. (2008) reveal that the structure of one such effector, Salmonella SifA, closely resembles that of an activator of endogenous GTPases.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsGlycoproteinsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansrho GTP-Binding ProteinsSalmonella InfectionsSalmonella typhimuriumBacterial ProteinsGlycoproteinsrho GTP-Binding ProteinsSifA protein, Salmonella

Identifiers

PMID18996339
OpenAlexW2169631123

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.