Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19717745›Full record

ReviewEukaryotic cell2009

Our paths might cross: the role of the fungal cell wall integrity pathway in stress response and cross talk with other stress response pathways.

Beth Burgwyn Fuchs, Eleftherios Mylonakis

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Review in Eukaryotic cell, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers.

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124citing papers in PubMed
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

124 citing papers in PubMed, 255 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Beth Burgwyn FuchsHarvard Medical School, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Eleftherios Mylonakis
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

A C.elegans high-throughput assay for the identification of new antifungal agentsR01AI075286 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MYLONAKIS, ELEFTHERIOS · 2008 to 2010
$1.3M
Genome-wide investigations in fungal pathogens utilizing an invertebrate model hoR21AI079569 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MYLONAKIS, ELEFTHERIOS · 2009 to 2010
$484k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI075286NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI079569
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungi occupy diverse environments and are subjected to many extreme conditions. Among the stressful conditions faced by fungi are pH changes, osmotic changes, thermal changes, oxide radicals, nutrient deprivation, and exposure to chemicals. These adversities can be found either in the environment or in animal and human hosts. The cell wall integrity (CWI) pathway provides a means to fortify and repair damages to the cell wall in order to withstand stressful environments. The CWI pathway in comprised of cell wall stress sensors that lead to activation of a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade. Signaling through the MAPK cascade leads to expression of transcription factors that facilitate biosynthesis of cell wall components and actin organization. Given the relatively limited number of components of the CWI pathway and the very diverse stimuli, there must be a means of expanding the pathway. To manage the diverse stress conditions, the CWI pathway cross talks with other pathways or proteins, and these cross talk events enhance the signaling capabilities of the CWI pathway. Lateral influences that facilitate maintaining the cell wall under stress conditions are TOR signaling, calcineurin signaling, the high-osmolarity glycerol pathway, the cyclic AMP-protein kinase A pathway, and additional proteins. In this article, we highlight several of the cross talk events that have been described for Saccharomyces cerevisiae and several other fungi.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionCell WallFungal ProteinsFungiReceptor Cross-TalkSaccharomyces cerevisiaeStress, PhysiologicalFungal Proteins

Identifiers

PMID19717745
PMCPMC2772411
OpenAlexW2136493024

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