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ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2015

Type IV pilus: one architectural problem, many structural solutions.

Julien R C Bergeron, Nikolaos G Sgourakis

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 93% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Julien R C BergeronDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Nikolaos G SgourakisNational Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: nikolaos.sgourakis@nih.gov.
National Institutes of Health · USUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Type IV pili are long appendages found at the surface of many bacteria, composed of an oligomerized pilin protein and involved in processes such as adherence, motility and DNA transfer. In this issue of Structure, Piepenbrink and colleagues report the first structure a major pilin from a Gram-positive bacterium, revealing an unprecedented stabilization mechanism that may have implications for pilus evolution.

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularModels, MolecularClostridioides difficileFimbriae, Bacterial

Identifiers

PMID25651057
OpenAlexW2026581422

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