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ArticleNature nanotechnology2018

An artificial molecular machine that builds an asymmetric catalyst.

Guillaume De Bo, Malcolm A Y Gall, Sonja Kuschel, Julien De Winter, Pascal Gerbaux, David A Leigh

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed
9.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 135 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Guillaume De BoSchool of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2670-6370
Malcolm A Y GallSchool of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Sonja KuschelSchool of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Julien De WinterOrganic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry (CISMa), University of Mons, Mons, Belgium.
Pascal GerbauxOrganic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry (CISMa), University of Mons, Mons, Belgium.
David A LeighSchool of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. david.leigh@manchester.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-4507
University of Manchester · GBUniversity of Mons · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomolecular machines perform types of complex molecular-level tasks that artificial molecular machines can aspire to. The ribosome, for example, translates information from the polymer track it traverses (messenger RNA) to the new polymer it constructs (a polypeptide)

Indexed as

PeptidesAmino AcidsCatalysisNanoparticlesProtein Structure, SecondaryRotaxanesAmino AcidsPeptidesRotaxanes

Identifiers

PMID29610529
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