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ArticlemBio2017

A Specialized Peptidoglycan Synthase Promotes

Sónia Castanheira, Juan J Cestero, Gadea Rico-Pérez, Pablo García, Felipe Cava, Juan A Ayala, M Graciela Pucciarelli, Francisco García-Del Portillo

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Article in mBio, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sónia CastanheiraLaboratorio de Patógenos Bacterianos Intracelulares, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Juan J CesteroLaboratorio de Patógenos Bacterianos Intracelulares, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Gadea Rico-PérezLaboratorio de Patógenos Bacterianos Intracelulares, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Pablo GarcíaLaboratorio de Patógenos Bacterianos Intracelulares, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Felipe CavaLaboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Juan A AyalaCentro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CBMSO-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
M Graciela PucciarelliLaboratorio de Patógenos Bacterianos Intracelulares, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain mg.pucciarelli@uam.es fgportillo@cnb.csic.es.ORCID 0000-0002-4268-2316
Francisco García-Del PortilloLaboratorio de Patógenos Bacterianos Intracelulares, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain mg.pucciarelli@uam.es fgportillo@cnb.csic.es.ORCID 0000-0002-4120-0530
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ESUmeå University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial cell division has been studied extensively under laboratory conditions. Despite being a key event in the bacterial cell cycle, cell division has not been explored

Indexed as

Cell DivisionAnimalsAnimal StructuresCell LineCell WallCulture MediaGene DeletionHumansHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMicePenicillin-Binding ProteinsPhagosomesSalmonella Infections, AnimalSalmonella typhimuriumCulture MediaPenicillin-Binding Proteinscell divisionintracellular pathogenspenicillin-binding proteinspeptidoglycanSalmonella

Identifiers

PMID29259085
PMCPMC5736910
OpenAlexW2781733243

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