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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2017

Pyrazinoic Acid Inhibits a Bifunctional Enzyme in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Moses Njire, Na Wang, Bangxing Wang, Yaoju Tan, Xingshan Cai, Yanwen Liu, Julius Mugweru, Jintao Guo, H M Adnan Hameed, Shouyong Tan and 6 more

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Activity of Pyrazinamide againstAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  10. Targeting theFrontiers in microbiology · 2021
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  11. The Bewildering Antitubercular Action of Pyrazinamide.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2020
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  12. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  13. RelZ-Mediated Stress Response inJournal of bacteriology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Moses NjireState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Na WangState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Bangxing WangState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Yaoju TanState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Xingshan CaiState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Yanwen LiuState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Julius MugweruState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Jintao GuoState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
H M Adnan HameedState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Shouyong TanState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Jianxiong LiuState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Department of Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Wing Wai YewStanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Eric NuermbergerCenter for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Gyanu LamichhaneCenter for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2214-0114
Jinsong LiuState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Tianyu ZhangState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China zhang_tianyu@gibh.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5647-6014
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease · CNJohns Hopkins University · USChinese University of Hong Kong · HKUniversity of Science and Technology of China · CN

Funding

New Drug for Treatment of Chronic Bacterial InfectionDP2OD008459 · OD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LAMICHHANE, GYANU · 2011 to 2013
$2.6M
NIH HHS DP2 OD008459
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pyrazinamide (PZA), an indispensable component of modern tuberculosis treatment, acts as a key sterilizing drug. While the mechanism of activation of this prodrug into pyrazinoic acid (POA) by

Indexed as

Antitubercular AgentsChromatography, High Pressure LiquidDNA, Single-StrandedDrug Resistance, BacterialMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMycobacterium tuberculosisPyrazinamidePyrophosphatasesAntitubercular AgentsDNA, Single-StrandedPyrazinamidepyrazinoic acidPyrophosphatasesantibiotic resistancedrug targetPNPaseppGpppyrazinamidepyrazinoic acid

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PMID28438933
PMCPMC5487608
OpenAlexW2607805981

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