Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20436957›Full record

ArticlePLoS biology2010

The light-driven proton pump proteorhodopsin enhances bacterial survival during tough times.

Edward F DeLong, Oded Béjà

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Article in PLoS biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 68 papers.

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68citing 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

68 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Phototrophicity and genomic composition in plant-associated Sphingomonas faeni strains.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2026
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  9. Widespread use of proton-pumping rhodopsin in Antarctic phytoplankton.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Edward F DeLongDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. Delong@mit.edu
Oded Béjà

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

LightBacteriaBacterial ProteinsCell SurvivalPhototrophic ProcessesProton PumpsRhodopsinRhodopsins, MicrobialSeawaterBacterial ProteinsproteorhodopsinProton PumpsRhodopsinRhodopsins, Microbial

Identifiers

PMID20436957
PMCPMC2860490

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