Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22222979›Full record

ArticleElectrophoresis2012

Agarose gel electrophoresis reveals structural fluidity of a phage T3 DNA packaging intermediate.

Philip Serwer, Elena T Wright

Open access · greenAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Electrophoresis, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
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 1 institution in 1 country.

Philip SerwerDepartment of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA. serwer@uthscsa.edu
Elena T Wright
The University of Texas Health Science Center · US

Funding

SINGLE MOLECULE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX DNA METABOLISMR01GM024365 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR SAN ANT · PI SERWER, PHILIP · 1985 to 2005
$1.1M
Assembly Visualized Routine Flourescence MicroscopyR21GM069757 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI SERWER, PHILIP · 2007 to 2008
$346k
NIGMS NIH HHS GM069757NIGMS NIH HHS GM24365NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM024365NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM069757
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We find a new aspect of DNA packaging-associated structural fluidity for phage T3 capsids. The procedure is (i) glutaraldehyde cross-linking of in vivo DNA packaging intermediates for the stabilization of structure and then (ii) determining effective radius by two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis (2D-AGE). The intermediates are capsids with incompletely packaged DNA (ipDNA) and without an external DNA segment; these intermediates are called ipDNA-capsids. We initially increase the production of ipDNA-capsids by raising NaCl concentration during in vivo DNA packaging. By 2D-AGE, we find a new state of contracted shell for some particles of one previously identified ipDNA-capsid. The contracted shell-state is found when the ipDNA length/mature DNA length (F) is above 0.17, but not at lower F. Some contracted-shell ipDNA-capsids have the phage tail; others do not. The contracted-shell ipDNA-capsids are explained by premature DNA maturation cleavage that makes accessible a contracted-shell intermediate of a cycle of the T3 DNA packaging motor. The analysis of ipDNA-capsids, rather than intermediates with uncleaved DNA, provides a simplifying strategy for a complete biochemical analysis of in vivo DNA packaging.

Indexed as

Bacteriophage T3CapsidCross-Linking ReagentsDNA PackagingDNA, ViralElectrophoresis, Agar GelElectrophoresis, Gel, Two-DimensionalGlutaralParticle SizeSodium ChlorideCross-Linking ReagentsDNA, ViralGlutaralSodium Chloride

Identifiers

PMID22222979
PMCPMC3516883
OpenAlexW1981834959

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.