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ArticleScientific reports2016

Protecting enzymatic function through directed packaging into bacterial outer membrane vesicles.

Nathan J Alves, Kendrick B Turner, Igor L Medintz, Scott A Walper

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
6.6field-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

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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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 115 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nathan J AlvesNational Research Council, 500 Fifth Street NW (Keck 576), Washington, DC 20001, USA.
Kendrick B TurnerCenter for Bio/Molecular Science &Engineering, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
Igor L MedintzCenter for Bio/Molecular Science &Engineering, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
Scott A WalperCenter for Bio/Molecular Science &Engineering, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
Naval Research Laboratory Center for Bio/Molecular Science and EngineeringNational Health Council · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria possess innate machinery to transport extracellular cargo between cells as well as package virulence factors to infect host cells by secreting outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) that contain small molecules, proteins, and genetic material. These robust proteoliposomes have evolved naturally to be resistant to degradation and provide a supportive environment to extend the activity of encapsulated cargo. In this study, we sought to exploit bacterial OMV formation to package and maintain the activity of an enzyme, phosphotriesterase (PTE), under challenging storage conditions encountered for real world applications. Here we show that OMV packaged PTE maintains activity over free PTE when subjected to elevated temperatures (>100-fold more activity after 14 days at 37 °C), iterative freeze-thaw cycles (3.4-fold post four-cycles), and lyophilization (43-fold). We also demonstrate how lyophilized OMV packaged PTE can be utilized as a cell free reagent for long term environmental remediation of pesticide/chemical warfare contaminated areas.

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BacteriaEnzyme StabilityExtracellular VesiclesFreeze DryingPhosphoric Triester HydrolasesProteolipidsTemperatureTime FactorsPhosphoric Triester HydrolasesProteolipidsproteoliposomes

Identifiers

PMID27117743
PMCPMC4846811
OpenAlexW2345262875

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