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ReviewApplied microbiology and biotechnology2018

Chitinolytic functions in actinobacteria: ecology, enzymes, and evolution.

Marie-Ève Lacombe-Harvey, Ryszard Brzezinski, Carole Beaulieu

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Review in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 151 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marie-Ève Lacombe-HarveyDépartement de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada.
Ryszard BrzezinskiDépartement de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada.
Carole BeaulieuDépartement de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada. Carole.Beaulieu@USherbrooke.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7400-5179
Université de Sherbrooke · CA

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 018602Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 05177
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Actinobacteria, a large group of Gram-positive bacteria, secrete a wide range of extracellular enzymes involved in the degradation of organic compounds and biopolymers including the ubiquitous aminopolysaccharides chitin and chitosan. While chitinolytic enzymes are distributed in all kingdoms of life, actinobacteria are recognized as particularly good decomposers of chitinous material and several members of this taxon carry impressive sets of genes dedicated to chitin and chitosan degradation. Degradation of these polymers in actinobacteria is dependent on endo- and exo-acting hydrolases as well as lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases. Actinobacterial chitinases and chitosanases belong to nine major families of glycosyl hydrolases that share no sequence similarity. In this paper, the distribution of chitinolytic actinobacteria within different ecosystems is examined and their chitinolytic machinery is described and compared to those of other chitinolytic organisms.

Indexed as

ActinobacteriaBacterial ProteinsChitinChitinasesChitosanEvolution, MolecularGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGlycoside HydrolasesStreptomycesBacterial ProteinsChitinChitinasesChitosanchitosanaseGlycoside HydrolasesActinomyceteChitinChitinaseChitosanChitosanaseGlycosyl hydrolaseStreptomyces

Identifiers

PMID29931600
PMCPMC6097792
OpenAlexW2808921048

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