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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2010

Bacterial nucleoid-associated proteins, nucleoid structure and gene expression.

Shane C Dillon, Charles J Dorman

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Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 501 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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501citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

501 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  17. Characterizing the Impact of Nucleoid-Associated Proteins on HU-DNA Interactions by Live-Cell Single-Molecule Tracking.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2026
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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.

Shane C DillonDepartment of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Charles J Dorman

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emerging models of the bacterial nucleoid show that nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) and transcription contribute in combination to the dynamic nature of nucleoid structure. NAPs and other DNA-binding proteins that display gene-silencing and anti-silencing activities are emerging as key antagonistic regulators of nucleoid structure. Furthermore, it is becoming clear that the boundary between NAPs and conventional transcriptional regulators is quite blurred and that NAPs facilitate the evolution of novel gene regulatory circuits. Here, NAP biology is considered from the standpoints of both gene regulation and nucleoid structure.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialBacteriaBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialGene Expression RegulationBacterial ProteinsDNA, Bacterial

Identifiers

PMID20140026

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