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ArticleCell adhesion & migration

Burkholderia cenocepacia infection: disruption of phagocyte immune functions through Rho GTPase inactivation.

Ronald S Flannagan

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Article in Cell adhesion & migration. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ronald S FlannaganProgram in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada. ronald.flannagan@sickkids.ca
Hospital for Sick Children · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phagocytosis is an important component of innate immunity that contributes to the eradication of infectious microorganisms; however, successful bacterial pathogens often evade different aspects of host immune responses. A common bacterial evasion strategy entails the production of toxins and/or effectors that disrupt normal host cell processes and because of their importance Rho-family GTPases are often targeted. Burkholderia cenocepacia, an opportunistic pathogen that has a propensity to infect cystic fibrosis patients, is an example of a pathogenic bacterium that has only recently been shown to disrupt Rho GTPase function in professional phagocytes. More specifically, B. cenocepacia disrupts Rac and Cdc42 seemingly through perturbation of guanine nucleotide exchange factor function. Inactivation of Rac, Cdc42 and conceivably other Rho GTPases seriously compromises phagocyte function.

Indexed as

AnimalsBurkholderia cenocepaciaBurkholderia Infectionscdc42 GTP-Binding ProteinHumansMacrophagesNADPH OxidasesPhagocytosisrac GTP-Binding ProteinsReactive Oxygen Speciescdc42 GTP-Binding ProteinNADPH Oxidasesrac GTP-Binding ProteinsReactive Oxygen Species

Identifiers

PMID22622109
PMCPMC3478249
OpenAlexW2332998001

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Registered trials

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