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

Oligomeric lipoprotein PelC guides Pel polysaccharide export across the outer membrane of

Lindsey S Marmont, Jacquelyn D Rich, John C Whitney, Gregory B Whitfield, Henrik Almblad, Howard Robinson, Matthew R Parsek, Joe J Harrison, P Lynne Howell

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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 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Pairwise Interactions of Three RelatedFrontiers in microbiology · 2021
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  20. PelX is a UDP-The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020
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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

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Lindsey S MarmontProgram in Molecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 0A4.
Jacquelyn D RichDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4.
John C WhitneyProgram in Molecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 0A4.
Gregory B WhitfieldProgram in Molecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 0A4.
Henrik AlmbladDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4.
Howard RobinsonPhoton Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000.
Matthew R ParsekDepartment of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7242.
Joe J HarrisonDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4.ORCID 0000-0003-0368-9539
P Lynne HowellProgram in Molecular Structure & Function, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 0A4; howell@sickkids.ca.
University of Toronto · CAUniversity of Calgary · CABrookhaven National Laboratory · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Life Science and Biomedical technology Research center at NSLS-II LSBRP41GM111244 · NIGMS · BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOC-BROOKHAVEN LAB · PI MCSWEENEY, SEAN · 2014 to 2018
$16.4M
The pel exopolysaccharide gene cluster of Pseudomonas aeruginosaR01AI077628 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI MATTHEW R. PARSEK, Daniel J Wozniak · 2009 to 2026
$7.1M
CIHR 43998NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI077628NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM111244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Secreted polysaccharides are important functional and structural components of bacterial biofilms. The opportunistic pathogen

Indexed as

Computational BiologyBiofilmsCrystallography, X-RayGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenome, BacterialLipoproteinsPeriplasmPolysaccharide-LyasesPolysaccharides, BacterialPseudomonas aeruginosaLipoproteinspectate lyasePolysaccharide-LyasesPolysaccharides, BacterialbiofilmsexopolysaccharidesPELPseudomonas aeruginosaX-ray crystallography

Identifiers

PMID28242707
PMCPMC5358405
OpenAlexW2592069689

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