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ReviewJournal of biology2009

Prion variants, species barriers, generation and propagation.

Reed B Wickner, Herman K Edskes, Frank Shewmaker, Dmitry Kryndushkin, Julie Nemecek

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Review in Journal of biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing 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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Pattern, process and the evolution of meaning: species and units of selection.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2010
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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

5 authors.

Reed B WicknerLaboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0830, USA. wickner@helix.nih.gov
Herman K Edskes
Frank Shewmaker
Dmitry Kryndushkin
Julie Nemecek

Funding

Prions of Yeast and Anti-Prion SystemsZIADK024950 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI WICKNER, REED B. · 2009 to 2025
$25.2M
Species Barriers of Yeast PrionsZ01DK024951 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI WICKNER, REED B. · 2007 to 2008
$797k
Curing Prions of YeastZ01DK024948 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI WICKNER, REED B. · 2007 to 2008
$641k
Species Barriers of Yeast PrionsZIADK024951 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI WICKNER, REED B. · 2009 to 2009
$285k
Curing Prions of YeastZIADK024948 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI WICKNER, REED B. · 2009 to 2009
$214k
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prion variants faithfully propagate across species barriers, but if the barrier is too high, new variants (mutants) are selected, as shown in a recent BMC Biology report. Protein sequence alteration can prevent accurate structural templating at filament ends producing prion variants.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsHumansPrion DiseasesPrionsSpecies SpecificityPrions

Identifiers

PMID19519931
PMCPMC2736662

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