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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2018

Characterization of Conserved and Novel Septal Factors in Mycobacterium smegmatis.

Katherine J Wu, Jenna Zhang, Catherine Baranowski, Vivian Leung, E Hesper Rego, Yasu S Morita, Eric J Rubin, Cara C Boutte

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 62 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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Katherine J WuDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Jenna ZhangDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Catherine BaranowskiDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Vivian LeungDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
E Hesper RegoDepartment of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Yasu S MoritaDepartment of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
Eric J RubinDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Cara C BoutteDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA cara.boutte@uta.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7645-6221
Harvard University · USUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst · USYale University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Septation in bacteria requires coordinated regulation of cell wall biosynthesis and hydrolysis enzymes so that new septal cross-wall can be appropriately constructed without compromising the integrity of the existing cell wall. Bacteria with different modes of growth and different types of cell wall require different regulators to mediate cell growth and division processes. Mycobacteria have both a cell wall structure and a mode of growth that are distinct from well-studied model organisms and use several different regulatory mechanisms. Here, using

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Cell DivisionBacterial ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsCell WallEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsMembrane ProteinsMycobacterium smegmatisPeptidoglycanProtein BindingBacterial ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsEscherichia coli ProteinsMembrane ProteinsPeptidoglycancell divisionenzyme regulationgrowth polaritymycobacteriumpeptidoglycan

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PMID29311277
PMCPMC5826036
OpenAlexW2781578389

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