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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2018

BgTEP: An Antiprotease Involved in Innate Immune Sensing in

Anaïs Portet, Richard Galinier, Silvain Pinaud, Julien Portela, Fanny Nowacki, Benjamin Gourbal, David Duval

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Anaïs PortetUniversité de Perpignan Via Domitia, Interactions Hôtes Pathogènes Environnements UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, Perpignan, France.
Richard GalinierUniversité de Perpignan Via Domitia, Interactions Hôtes Pathogènes Environnements UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, Perpignan, France.
Silvain PinaudUniversité de Perpignan Via Domitia, Interactions Hôtes Pathogènes Environnements UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, Perpignan, France.
Julien PortelaUniversité de Perpignan Via Domitia, Interactions Hôtes Pathogènes Environnements UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, Perpignan, France.
Fanny NowackiUniversité de Perpignan Via Domitia, Interactions Hôtes Pathogènes Environnements UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, Perpignan, France.
Benjamin GourbalUniversité de Perpignan Via Domitia, Interactions Hôtes Pathogènes Environnements UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, Perpignan, France.
David DuvalUniversité de Perpignan Via Domitia, Interactions Hôtes Pathogènes Environnements UMR 5244, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, Perpignan, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité de Montpellier · FRUniversité de Perpignan · FRIfremer · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insect thioester-containing protein (iTEP) is the most recently defined group among the thioester-containing protein (TEP) superfamily. TEPs are key components of the immune system, and iTEPs from flies and mosquitoes were shown to be major immune weapons. Initially characterized from insects, TEP genes homologous to iTEP were further described from several other invertebrates including arthropods, cniderians, and mollusks albeit with few functional characterizations. In the freshwater snail

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateAnimalsBiomphalariaGene ExpressionGene Expression ProfilingHemocytesImmunohistochemistryInsect ProteinsIn Situ HybridizationModels, MolecularPhagocytosisPhylogenyProtease InhibitorsProtein BindingProtein ConformationStructure-Activity RelationshipInsect ProteinsProtease InhibitorsBiomphalaria glabratacomplement-like proteininnate immunityinteraction host/pathogensthioester-containing protein

Identifiers

PMID29899746
PMCPMC5989330
OpenAlexW2950372777

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