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ArticleeLife2017

Contact-dependent killing by

Leonor García-Bayona, Monica S Guo, Michael T Laub

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 82 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Leonor García-BayonaDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
Monica S GuoDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
Michael T LaubDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8288-7607
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Cell Cycle Regulation in Caulobacter CrescentusR01GM082899 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LAUB, MICHAEL · 2008 to 2020
$3.8M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM082899
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most bacteria are in fierce competition with other species for limited nutrients. Some bacteria can kill nearby cells by secreting bacteriocins, a diverse group of proteinaceous antimicrobials. However, bacteriocins are typically freely diffusible, and so of little value to planktonic cells in aqueous environments. Here, we identify an atypical two-protein bacteriocin in the α-proteobacterium

Indexed as

AntibiosisBacterial ProteinsBacteriocinsCaulobacter crescentusMembrane ProteinsMicrobial ViabilityProtein TransportBacterial ProteinsBacteriocinsMembrane ProteinsbacteriocinsCaulobacter crescentuscontact-dependent inhibitioninfectious diseasemicrobiologytype I secretion system

Identifiers

PMID28323618
PMCPMC5380434
OpenAlexW2600030807

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