Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29880803›Full record

ArticleNature communications2018

Multiple communication mechanisms between sensor kinases are crucial for virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Vanessa I Francis, Elaine M Waters, Sutharsan E Finton-James, Andrea Gori, Aras Kadioglu, Alan R Brown, Steven L Porter

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
34citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. The response regulator BqsR/CarR controls ferrous iron (FebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. mBio · 2024
    Article
  9. Evaluation of Expanded 2-Aminobenzothiazole Library for Inhibition ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
    Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Review
  13. Polyamines and linear DNA mediate bacterial threat assessment of bacteriophage infection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
    Article
  14. Article
  15. More than just a gel: the extracellular matrixome ofFrontiers in molecular biosciences · 2023
    Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vanessa I FrancisBiosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK.
Elaine M WatersDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK.
Sutharsan E Finton-JamesBiosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK.
Andrea GoriBiosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK.
Aras KadiogluDepartment of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK.
Alan R BrownBiosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK.
Steven L PorterBiosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK. s.porter@exeter.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7851-236X
University of Exeter · GBUniversity of Liverpool · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/M020045/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria and many non-metazoan Eukaryotes respond to stresses and threats using two-component systems (TCSs) comprising sensor kinases (SKs) and response regulators (RRs). Multikinase networks, where multiple SKs work together, detect and integrate different signals to control important lifestyle decisions such as sporulation and virulence. Here, we study interactions between two SKs from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, GacS and RetS, which control the switch between acute and chronic virulence. We demonstrate three mechanisms by which RetS attenuates GacS signalling: RetS takes phosphoryl groups from GacS-P; RetS has transmitter phosphatase activity against the receiver domain of GacS-P; and RetS inhibits GacS autophosphorylation. These mechanisms play important roles in vivo and during infection, and exemplify an unprecedented degree of signal processing by SKs that may be exploited in other multikinase networks.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsDisease Models, AnimalFemaleHumansMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMothsPhosphorylationPhosphotransferasesProtein DomainsProtein Interaction MapsPseudomonas aeruginosaPseudomonas InfectionsSignal TransductionAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsPhosphotransferasesRetS protein, Pseudomonas aeruginosaVirulence Factors

Identifiers

PMID29880803
PMCPMC5992135
OpenAlexW2806868649

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.