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ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2018

Peptidoglycan recognition by the innate immune system.

Andrea J Wolf, David M Underhill

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Review in Nature reviews. Immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 225 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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225citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
16.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

225 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 457 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrea J WolfResearch Division of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
David M UnderhillResearch Division of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The innate immune system recognizes microbial products using germline-encoded receptors that initiate inflammatory responses to infection. The bacterial cell wall component peptidoglycan is a prime example of a conserved pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP) for which the innate immune system has evolved sensing mechanisms. Peptidoglycan is a direct target for innate immune receptors and also regulates the accessibility of other PAMPs to additional innate immune receptors. Subtle structural modifications to peptidoglycan can influence the ability of the innate immune system to detect bacteria and can allow bacteria to evade or alter host defences. This Review focuses on the mechanisms of peptidoglycan recognition that are used by mammalian cells and discusses new insights into the role of peptidoglycan recognition in inflammation, metabolism, immune homeostasis and disease.

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateAnimalsCarrier ProteinsGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansImmunity, MucosalModels, ImmunologicalNLR ProteinsPeptidoglycanReceptors, Cell SurfaceSignal TransductionToll-Like ReceptorsCarrier ProteinsNLR ProteinsPeptidoglycanpeptidoglycan receptorpeptidoglycan recognition proteinReceptors, Cell SurfaceToll-Like Receptors

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PMID29292393
OpenAlexW2782073709

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