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ReviewAnnual review of microbiology2017

Copper Acquisition and Utilization in Fungi.

Aaron D Smith, Brandon L Logeman, Dennis J Thiele

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In one paragraph

Review in Annual review of microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
67citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Copper-driven mutualism ofMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2026
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  6. Review
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  8. The Elements of Life, Photosynthesis and Genomics.Journal of molecular biology · 2025
    Review
  9. Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Article
  10. Review
  11. Metals at the Host-Fungal Pathogen Battleground.Annual review of microbiology · 2024
    Review
  12. Article
  13. Characterization of a High-Affinity Copper TransporterJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Article
  14. Review
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  18. Insights into copper sensing and tolerance inFrontiers in microbiology · 2024
    Article
  19. Metals and the cell surface of Cryptococcus neoformans.Current opinion in microbiology · 2023
    Review
  20. Article

7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 1 institution in 2 countries.

Aaron D SmithDepartment of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology.
Brandon L LogemanDepartment of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology.
Dennis J ThieleDepartment of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology.
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics · PL

Funding

Tri-Institutional Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training ProgramT32AI052080 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ANDREW ALSPAUGH, JOSEPH HEITMAN · 2003 to 2026
$8.7M
Metal Homeostasis in YeastR01GM041840 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ALSPAUGH, ANDREW · 1989 to 2022
$6.5M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI052080NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM041840
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungal cells colonize and proliferate in distinct niches, from soil and plants to diverse tissues in human hosts. Consequently, fungi are challenged with the goal of obtaining nutrients while simultaneously elaborating robust regulatory mechanisms to cope with a range of availability of nutrients, from scarcity to excess. Copper is essential for life but also potentially toxic. In this review we describe the sophisticated homeostatic mechanisms by which fungi acquire, utilize, and control this biochemically versatile trace element. Fungal pathogens, which can occupy distinct host tissues that have their own intrinsic requirements for copper homeostasis, have evolved mechanisms to acquire copper to successfully colonize the host, disseminate to other tissues, and combat host copper bombardment mechanisms that would otherwise mitigate virulence.

Indexed as

CopperFungiHomeostasisTrace ElementsCopperTrace Elementscompartmentalizationmetalspathogenesistranscriptiontransportervirulence

Identifiers

PMID28886682
PMCPMC6827982
OpenAlexW2607359480

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Registered trials

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