Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23916223›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2013

Teichoic acid biosynthesis as an antibiotic target.

Lincoln W Pasquina, John P Santa Maria, Suzanne Walker

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Review in Current opinion in microbiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
55citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Assembly of Bacterial Surface Glycopolymers as an Antibiotic Target.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lincoln W PasquinaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
John P Santa Maria
Suzanne Walker
Harvard University · US

Funding

Technical Mother Machine CoreP01AI083214 · NIAID · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI Michael S Gilmore · 2009 to 2026
$39.4M
NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI083214
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relentless spread of antibiotic-resistant pathogens makes it imperative to develop new chemotherapeutic strategies to overcome infection. The bacterial cell wall has served as a rich source for both validated and unexploited pathways that are essential for virulence and survival. Lipoteichoic acids (LTAs) and wall teichoic acids (WTAs) are cell wall polymers that play fundamental roles in Gram-positive bacterial physiology and pathogenesis, and both have been proposed as novel antibacterial targets. Here we describe recent progress toward the discovery of teichoic acid biosynthesis inhibitors and their potential as antibiotics to combat Staphylococcus aureus infections.

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBiosynthetic PathwaysDrug DiscoveryStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcus aureusTeichoic AcidsAnti-Bacterial AgentsTeichoic Acids

Identifiers

PMID23916223
PMCPMC3834221
OpenAlexW2111584569

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