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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018

The Small Regulatory Antisense RNA PilR Affects Pilus Formation and Cell Motility by Negatively Regulating

Jinlu Hu, Jiao Zhan, Hui Chen, Chenliu He, Huaixing Cang, Qiang Wang

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Type IV pilin regulation: a transcriptional overview.Critical reviews in microbiology · 2026
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  5. Article
  6. Regulatory sRNAs in Cyanobacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018
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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.

Jinlu HuSchool of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China.
Jiao ZhanKey Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
Hui ChenKey Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
Chenliu HeKey Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
Huaixing CangSchool of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China.
Qiang WangKey Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pili are found on the surface of many bacteria and play important roles in cell motility, pathogenesis, biofilm formation, and sensing and reacting to environmental changes. Cell motility in the model cyanobacterium

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cell motilitypilA11piliPilRSynechocystis sp. PCC 6803

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PMID29740417
PMCPMC5924778

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