Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19527881›Full record

ReviewCell host & microbe2009

Autophagy, immunity, and microbial adaptations.

Vojo Deretic, Beth Levine

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Review in Cell host & microbe, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 495 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
495citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
45.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

495 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 842 citations in OpenAlex.

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435 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vojo DereticDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, 915 Camino de Salud, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. vderetic@salud.unm.edu
Beth Levine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USUniversity of New Mexico · US

Funding

Pattern Recognition Receptors and Autophagy in Mtb Control in AIDSR01AI042999 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI DERETIC, VOJO P · 1998 to 2017
$6.6M
Pattern Recognition Receptors and Autophagy in Mtb Control in AIDSR37AI042999 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI VOJO P DERETIC · 2018 to 2026
$4.7M
MECHANISM OF M TUBERCULOSIS PHAGOSOME MATURATION ARRESTR01AI045148 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI DERETIC, VOJO P · 1999 to 2008
$3.3M
Beclin 1-Bcl-2 Interactions: Effects on AutophagyR01CA109618 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEVINE, BETH C · 2004 to 2014
$3.1M
Autophagy in TuberculosisR01AI069345 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI DERETIC, VOJO P · 2007 to 2011
$1.8M
Beclin 1-Bcl-2 Interactions: Effects on AutophagyR56CA109618 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEVINE, BETH C · 2009 to 2009
$235k
NCI NIH HHS CA109618NCI NIH HHS R01 CA109618NCI NIH HHS R56 CA109618NIAID NIH HHS AI069345NIAID NIH HHS AI151267NIAID NIH HHS AI42999NIAID NIH HHS AI45148NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI042999NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI045148NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI069345NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI042999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy adjusts cellular biomass and function in response to diverse stimuli, including infection. Autophagy plays specific roles in shaping immune system development, fueling host innate and adaptive immune responses, and directly controlling intracellular microbes as a cell-autonomous innate defense. As an evolutionary counterpoint, intracellular pathogens have evolved to block autophagic microbicidal defense and subvert host autophagic responses for their survival or growth. The ability of eukaryotic pathogens to deploy their own autophagic machinery may also contribute to microbial pathogenesis. Thus, a complex interplay between autophagy and microbial adaptations against autophagy governs the net outcome of host-microbe encounters.

Indexed as

AutophagyHost-Pathogen InteractionsAnimalsBacteriaCommunicable DiseasesEukaryotaModels, Biological

Identifiers

PMID19527881
PMCPMC2720763
OpenAlexW2021532580

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