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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

MotAB-like machinery drives the movement of MreB filaments during bacterial gliding motility.

Guo Fu, Jigar N Bandaria, Anne Valérie Le Gall, Xue Fan, Ahmet Yildiz, Tâm Mignot, David R Zusman, Beiyan Nan

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 59 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 2 countries.

Guo FuDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843.
Jigar N BandariaDepartment of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Anne Valérie Le GallLaboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, UMR7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, CNRS-Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France.
Xue FanDepartment of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843.
Ahmet YildizDepartment of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Tâm MignotLaboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, UMR7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, CNRS-Aix Marseille University, 13009 Marseille, France.
David R ZusmanDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 zusman@berkeley.edu bnan@tamu.edu.
Beiyan NanDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843; zusman@berkeley.edu bnan@tamu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0326-9529
Texas A&M University · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · USCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

SENSORY TRANSDUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN A BACTERIUMR01GM020509 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI ZUSMAN, DAVID ROBERT · 1985 to 2014
$5.9M
Understanding the Mechanism and Regulation of the Human Cytoplasmic Dynein ComplexR01GM094522 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI YILDIZ, AHMET · 2011 to 2019
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM020509NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM094522
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MreB is a bacterial actin that is important for cell shape and cell wall biosynthesis in many bacterial species. MreB also plays crucial roles in

Indexed as

ActinsBacterial ProteinsCell MovementLuminescent ProteinsMicroscopy, FluorescenceMutationMyxococcus xanthusRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRed Fluorescent ProteinActinsBacterial ProteinsLuminescent ProteinsMotA protein, BacteriaMotB protein, BacteriaRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRed Fluorescent Proteinbacterial cytoskeletonflagella stator homologpeptidoglycan synthesisprotein dynamicssuper-resolution microscopy

Identifiers

PMID29463706
PMCPMC5877941
OpenAlexW2791321957

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