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ArticleFEBS letters2018

DNA-binding properties of MafR, a global regulator of Enterococcus faecalis.

Sofía Ruiz-Cruz, Ana Moreno-Blanco, Manuel Espinosa, Alicia Bravo

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Article in FEBS letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. One Earth: The Equilibrium between the Human and the Bacterial Worlds.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  2. Promoter DNA recognition by theFrontiers in molecular biosciences · 2023
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  4. PRD-Containing Virulence Regulators (PCVRs) in Pathogenic Bacteria.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
    Review
  5. Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2020
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sofía Ruiz-CruzCentro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
Ana Moreno-BlancoCentro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
Manuel EspinosaCentro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
Alicia BravoCentro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ESCentro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global transcriptional regulators play key roles during bacterial adaptation to environmental fluctuations. Protein MafR from Enterococcus faecalis was shown to activate the transcription of many genes on a genome-wide scale. We proposed that MafR is a global regulator of the Mga/AtxA family. Here, we purified an untagged form of the MafR protein and found that it binds to linear double-stranded DNAs in a nonsequence-specific manner. Moreover, multiple MafR units (likely dimers) bind sequentially to the DNA molecule generating multimeric complexes. On DNAs that contain the promoter of the mafR gene, MafR recognizes a potentially curved DNA region. We discuss that a characteristic of the Mga/AtxA regulators might be their ability to recognize particular DNA shapes across the bacterial genomes.

Indexed as

Genome, BacterialResponse ElementsBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsEnterococcus faecalisBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsEnterococcus faecalisgene expressionglobal regulatorsprotein-DNA interactions

Identifiers

PMID29537484
PMCPMC5947639
OpenAlexW2792914883

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