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ReviewMolecular cell2014

Bacteria fighting back: how pathogens target and subvert the host innate immune system.

L Evan Reddick, Neal M Alto

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
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Review in Molecular cell, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
124citing papers in PubMed
10.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

124 citing papers in PubMed, 200 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

L Evan ReddickDepartment of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-8816, USA.
Neal M AltoDepartment of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-8816, USA. Electronic address: neal.alto@utsouthwestern.edu.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

Type III effector regulation of host signal transduction systemsR01AI083359 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI ALTO, NEAL MATHEW · 2009 to 2024
$6.3M
Bacterial Regulation of Eukaryotic Signaling Enzymes: Structure and FunctionR01GM100486 · NIGMS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI ALTO, NEAL MATHEW · 2012 to 2015
$1.2M
Bacterial avoidance of innate immune detectionF32AI098384 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI REDDICK, LOVETT EVAN · 2013 to 2014
$107k
NIAID NIH HHS 1F32AI098384NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI098384NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI083359NIAID NIH HHS R01AI083359NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100486NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM100486
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The innate immune system has evolved under selective pressure since the radiation of multicellular life approximately 600 million years ago. Because of this long history, innate immune mechanisms found in modern eukaryotic organisms today are highly complex but yet built from common molecular strategies. It is now clear that evolution has selected a conserved set of antimicrobial peptides as well as pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) that initiate cellular-based signals as a first line of defense against invading pathogens. Conversely, microbial pathogens employ their own strategies in order to evade, inhibit, or otherwise manipulate the innate immune response. Here, we discuss recent discoveries that have changed our view of immune modulatory mechanisms employed by bacterial pathogens, focusing specifically on the initial sites of microbial recognition and extending to host cellular signal transduction, proinflammatory cytokine production, and alteration of protein trafficking and secretion.

Indexed as

Immune EvasionImmunity, InnateModels, ImmunologicalBacteriaHost-Pathogen InteractionsReceptors, Pattern RecognitionSignal TransductionToll-Like Receptor 4Receptors, Pattern RecognitionToll-Like Receptor 4

Identifiers

PMID24766896
PMCPMC4023866
OpenAlexW2072760254

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