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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

An amidase is required for proper intercellular communication in the filamentous cyanobacterium

Zhenggao Zheng, Amin Omairi-Nasser, Xiying Li, Chunxia Dong, Yan Lin, Robert Haselkorn, Jindong Zhao

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhenggao ZhengState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
Amin Omairi-NasserDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.
Xiying LiState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
Chunxia DongState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
Yan LinChinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Phycological Research, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, People's Republic of China.
Robert HaselkornDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; jzhao@pku.edu.cn rh01@uchicago.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4094-3524
Jindong ZhaoState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China; jzhao@pku.edu.cn rh01@uchicago.edu.
Peking University · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNUniversity of Chicago · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Channels that cross cell walls and connect the cytoplasm of neighboring cells in multicellular cyanobacteria are pivotal for intercellular communication. We find that the product of the gene

Indexed as

AmidohydrolasesAnabaenaBacterial ProteinsCell CommunicationCell WallCyanobacteriaCytoplasmFluorescence Recovery After PhotobleachingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGreen Fluorescent ProteinsNitrogenPeptidoglycanPeriplasmamidaseAmidohydrolasesBacterial ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsNitrogenPeptidoglycanchannelscyanobacteriaintercellular communicationpeptidoglycan

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PMID28159891
PMCPMC5338405
OpenAlexW2583316182

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