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

Chromosome segregation drives division site selection in

Renske van Raaphorst, Morten Kjos, Jan-Willem Veening

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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 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. The RecA-directed recombination pathway of natural transformation initiates at chromosomal replication forks in the pneumococcus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 3 countries.

Renske van RaaphorstMolecular Genetics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
Morten KjosMolecular Genetics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
Jan-Willem VeeningMolecular Genetics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Centre for Synthetic Biology, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands; Jan-Willem.Veening@unil.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-3162-6634
University of Groningen · NL

Funding

European Research Council 337399
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate spatial and temporal positioning of the tubulin-like protein FtsZ is key for proper bacterial cell division.

Indexed as

Chromosome SegregationBacterial ProteinsCell DivisionCRISPR-Cas SystemsCytoskeletal ProteinsDNA Polymerase IIIDNA ReplicationGreen Fluorescent ProteinsOrigin Recognition ComplexStreptococcus pneumoniaeBacterial ProteinsCytoskeletal ProteinsDNA Polymerase IIIDnaX protein, BacteriaFtsZ protein, BacteriaGreen Fluorescent ProteinsOriC chromosomal replication originOrigin Recognition Complexcell divisionchromosome organizationFtsZSMCStreptococcus pneumoniae

Identifiers

PMID28674002
PMCPMC5530652
OpenAlexW2951687873

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