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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2017

Bacterial Gliding Motility: Rolling Out a Consensus Model.

Beiyan Nan

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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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.

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

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Ice gliding diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Adaption ofMicroorganisms · 2023
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  9. Bacterial Motility and Its Role in Skin and Wound Infections.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  15. Microorganisms · 2021
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  16. Origins of eukaryotic excitability.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  17. AnBio-protocol · 2020
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  18. Establishing rod shape from spherical, peptidoglycan-deficient bacterial spores.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Beiyan NanDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Electronic address: bnan@tamu.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some bacteria glide mysteriously on surfaces without using flagella, pili, or other external appendages. Recent studies suggest how gliding motors in the inner membrane may transduce force to the cell surface.

Indexed as

Focal AdhesionsMyxococcus xanthusConsensusFimbriae, BacterialFlagella

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