Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21786783›Full record

ReviewChemical reviews2011

Antibiotics as signal molecules.

Diego Romero, Matthew F Traxler, Daniel López, Roberto Kolter

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Chemical reviews, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 176 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
176citing 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

176 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Bioprospecting Indoor Bacteria Producing Bioactive Metabolites.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026
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  3. Leveraging antibiotic hormesis for cryptic natural product discovery.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. Chemical Conversations.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  12. Quorum Sensing and its Inhibition inCurrent drug targets · 2025
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  13. The Effect of Erythromycin in Macrolide-resistantCurrent pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2025
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  14. Transcriptomic Insights into Adaptive Strategies ofInfection and drug resistance · 2025
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  18. The EpiphyteBiomolecules · 2024
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116 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

4 authors.

Diego RomeroDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Matthew F Traxler
Daniel López
Roberto Kolter

Funding

MOLECULAR GENETICS OF BIOFILM FORMATIONR01GM058213 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI RUDNER, DAVID Z · 1998 to 2017
$7.5M
Chemical Biology of Mircobial Interspecies SignalingR01GM082137 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KOLTER, ROBERTO G. · 2007 to 2015
$3.5M
Genome mining of newly sequenced streptomycetes for novel natural productsF32GM089044 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI TRAXLER, MATTHEW F · 2009 to 2011
$144k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM089044NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM089044-01NIGMS NIH HHS GM58213NIGMS NIH HHS GM82137NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM058213NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM082137
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAminoglycosidesAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriocinsbeta-LactamsBiofilmsMacrolidesPeptides, CyclicPhenazinesTetracyclinesAminoglycosidesAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriocinsbeta-LactamsMacrolidesPeptides, CyclicPhenazinesTetracyclines

Identifiers

PMID21786783
PMCPMC3173521

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