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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2012

Iron sulfur cluster proteins and microbial regulation: implications for understanding tuberculosis.

Vikram Saini, Aisha Farhana, Joel N Glasgow, Adrie J C Steyn

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. WhiB6 regulation of ESX-1 gene expression is controlled by a negative feedback loop inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Vikram SainiDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
Aisha Farhana
Joel N Glasgow
Adrie J C Steyn
University of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal · ZA

Funding

WhiB3 in M. tuberculosis virulenceR01AI058131 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI STEYN, ADRIE JC · 2004 to 2014
$3.6M
MECHANISM OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS PERSISTENCER01AI076389 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI STEYN, ADRIE JC · 2009 to 2012
$1.4M
Role of WhiB3 in M. tuberculosis virulenceR56AI058131 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI STEYN, ADRIE JC · 2009 to 2009
$366k
NIAID NIH HHS AI058131NIAID NIH HHS AI076389NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI058131NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI076389NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI058131
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All pathogenic and nonpathogenic microbes are continuously exposed to environmental or endogenous reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, which can critically effect survival and disease. Iron-sulfur [Fe-S] cluster containing prosthetic groups provide the microbial cell with a unique capacity to sense and transcriptionally respond to diatomic gases (e.g. NO and O2) and redox-cycling agents. Recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms for how the FNR and SoxR [Fe-S] cluster proteins respond to NO and O2 have provided new insights into the biochemical mechanism of action of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) family of WhiB [Fe-S] cluster proteins. These insights have provided the basis for establishing a unifying paradigm for the Mtb WhiB family of proteins. Mtb is the etiological agent for tuberculosis (TB), a disease that affects nearly one-third of the world's population.

Indexed as

Multigene FamilyBacterial ProteinsHumansIron-Sulfur ProteinsOxidation-ReductionSuccinate DehydrogenaseTranscription FactorsTuberculosisBacterial ProteinsIron-Sulfur ProteinsSoxR protein, BacteriaSuccinate DehydrogenaseTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID22483328
PMCPMC3962503
OpenAlexW2167937899

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