Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29514960›Full record

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

Nongenetic origins of cell-to-cell variability in B lymphocyte proliferation.

Simon Mitchell, Koushik Roy, Thomas A Zangle, Alexander Hoffmann

Erratum issuedOpen access · bronzeAbstract read
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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. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 47 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

47 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Direct observation correlates NFκB cRel in B cells with activating and terminating their proliferative program.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  14. Computational modeling of DLBCL predicts response to BH3-mimetics.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2023
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  20. Stochastic dynamics of Type-I interferon responses.PLoS computational biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Simon MitchellInstitute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Koushik RoyInstitute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Thomas A ZangleDepartment Chemical Engineering and Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
Alexander HoffmannInstitute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095; ahoffmann@ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5607-3845
QB3 · USUniversity of Utah · US

Funding

Women's CancersP30CA016042 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Samuel Wheeler French · 1985 to 2026
$134.5M
Cell decision underlying B-cell immune responsesR01AI132731 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HOFFMANN, ALEXANDER · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
NFkB Signaling in MacrophagesR01AI127864 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HOFFMANN, ALEXANDER · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016042NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127864NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132731
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid antibody production in response to invading pathogens requires the dramatic expansion of pathogen-derived antigen-specific B lymphocyte populations. Whether B cell population dynamics are based on stochastic competition between competing cell fates, as in the development of competence by the bacterium

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Models, BiologicalAnimalsApoptosisB-LymphocytesCell LineageCell ProliferationFemaleMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicOligopeptidesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcrSingle-Cell AnalysisStochastic ProcessesTime-Lapse ImagingWorkflowBcr protein, mousebenzyloxycarbonyl-valyl-alanyl-aspartic acidOligopeptidesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcrB cellsheterogeneitymath modelproliferationsystems biology

Identifiers

PMID29514960
PMCPMC5866559
OpenAlexW2790032333

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