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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2013

Organophosphonates revealed: new insights into the microbial metabolism of ancient molecules.

John W McGrath, Jason P Chin, John P Quinn

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Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing 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

73 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Discovery of the Phosphonate Flavophos Produced byJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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  5. Discovery of the Phosphonate Flavophos Produced bybioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. The microbial phosphorus cycle in aquatic ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025
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  12. Phosphonate-driven oxic CHISME communications · 2025
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  18. Glyphosate-Induced Phosphonatase Operons in Soil Bacteria of the GenusInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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13 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

3 authors.

John W McGrathSchool of Biological Sciences and the Institute for Global Food Security, The Queens University of Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland.
Jason P Chin
John P Quinn

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organophosphonates are ancient molecules that contain the chemically stable C-P bond, which is considered a relic of the reducing atmosphere on primitive earth. Synthetic phosphonates now have a wide range of applications in the agricultural, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. However, the existence of C-P compounds as contemporary biogenic molecules was not discovered until 1959, with the identification of 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid in rumen protozoa. Here, we review advances in our understanding of the biochemistry and genetics of microbial phosphonate metabolism, and discuss the role of these compounds and of the organisms engaged in their turnover within the P cycle.

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AnimalsBacteriaHumansMolecular StructureOrganophosphonatesPhosphorusOrganophosphonatesPhosphorus

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PMID23624813

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