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ArticleInfection and immunity2018

CdtC-Induced Processing of Membrane-Bound CdtA Is a Crucial Step in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Cytolethal Distending Toxin Holotoxin Formation.

Keiko Tsuruda, Oranart Matangkasombut, Masaru Ohara, Motoyuki Sugai

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Bacterial AB toxins and host-microbe interactions.Advances in microbial physiology · 2022
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Keiko TsurudaDepartment of Bacteriology, Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Oranart MatangkasombutDepartment of Microbiology and Research Unit on Oral Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Masaru OharaHiroshima University Dental Clinic, Higashihiroshima, Japan.
Motoyuki SugaiDepartment of Bacteriology, Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan sugai@hiroshima-u.ac.jp.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9252-7739
Hiroshima University · JPChulalongkorn University · TH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitansBacterial ToxinsCell MembraneHumansPasteurellaceae InfectionsBacterial Toxinscytolethal distending toxincytolethal distending toxin, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitanscytolethal distending toxin

Identifiers

PMID29229729
PMCPMC5820955
OpenAlexW2792838718

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.