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The Conserved Spore Coat Protein SpoVM Is Largely Dispensable in

John W Ribis, Priyanka Ravichandran, Emily E Putnam, Keyan Pishdadian, Aimee Shen

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Article in mSphere. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

John W RibisDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Priyanka RavichandranDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Emily E PutnamDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Keyan PishdadianDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Aimee ShenDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
University of Vermont · USTufts University · US

Funding

Spore Assembly in Clostridium DifficileR01AI122232 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE · PI SHEN, AIMEE · 2016 to 2025
$4.2M
Cell Division in ClostridioidesdifficileR37AI122232 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI Aimee Shen · 2026 to 2026
$509k
NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI122232
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spore-forming bacterial pathogen

Indexed as

Clostridium difficilecoatmorphogenesisSpoIVAsporeSpoVM

Identifiers

PMID28959733
PMCPMC5607322
OpenAlexW2755185816

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