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

Structural changes of TasA in biofilm formation of

Anne Diehl, Yvette Roske, Linda Ball, Anup Chowdhury, Matthias Hiller, Noel Molière, Regina Kramer, Daniel Stöppler, Catherine L Worth, Brigitte Schlegel and 12 more

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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 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 146 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Tat-dependent bundling pilus of a halophilic archaeon assembles by a strand donation mechanism and facilitates biofilm formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  20. Structure of biofilm-forming functional amyloid PSMα1 fromProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

22 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Anne DiehlLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Yvette RoskeMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Linda BallLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Anup ChowdhuryLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Matthias HillerLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Noel MolièreInstitut für Mikrobiologie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30419 Hannover, Germany.
Regina KramerInstitut für Mikrobiologie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30419 Hannover, Germany.
Daniel StöpplerLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Catherine L WorthLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Brigitte SchlegelLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Martina LeidertLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Nils CremerLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Natalja ErdmannLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Daniel LopezCentro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Heike StephanowitzLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Eberhard KrauseLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Barth-Jan van RossumLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5713-8436
Peter SchmiederLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Udo HeinemannMax-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, 13125 Berlin, Germany; heinemann@mdc-berlin.de turgay@ifmb.uni-hannover.de oschkinat@fmp-berlin.de.ORCID 0000-0002-8191-3850
Kürşad TurgayInstitut für Mikrobiologie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 30419 Hannover, Germany; heinemann@mdc-berlin.de turgay@ifmb.uni-hannover.de oschkinat@fmp-berlin.de.ORCID 0000-0002-8959-492X
Ümit AkbeyLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
Hartmut OschkinatLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, 13125 Berlin, Germany; heinemann@mdc-berlin.de turgay@ifmb.uni-hannover.de oschkinat@fmp-berlin.de.
Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie · DELeibniz University Hannover · DEMax Delbrück Center · DEAarhus University · DKCentro Nacional de Biotecnología · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microorganisms form surface-attached communities, termed biofilms, which can serve as protection against host immune reactions or antibiotics.

Indexed as

Bacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsBiofilmsCalorimetryCrystallography, X-RayHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMetalloendopeptidasesMicroscopy, ElectronModels, MolecularMolecular WeightProtein ConformationStructural Homology, ProteinUltracentrifugationBacterial ProteinscamelysinMetalloendopeptidasesTasA protein, Bacillus subtilisBacillus subtilisbiofilmNMRstructureTasA

Identifiers

PMID29531041
PMCPMC5879678
OpenAlexW2789731003

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