Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30023847›Full record

ArticleACS omega2018

Initiation, Elongation, and Termination of Bacterial Cellulose Synthesis.

John B McManus, Hui Yang, Liza Wilson, James D Kubicki, Ming Tien

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Article in ACS omega, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 34 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

John B McManusDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.
Hui YangDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.
Liza WilsonDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.
James D KubickiDepartment of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.
Ming TienDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.
Pennsylvania State University · USThe University of Texas at El Paso · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellulose is the major component of the plant cell wall and composed of β-linked glucose units. Use of cellulose is greatly impacted by its physical properties, which are dominated by the number of individual cellulose strand within each fiber and the average length of each strand. Our work described herein provides a complete mechanism for cellulose synthase accounting for its processivity and mechanism of initiation. Using ionic liquids and gel permeation chromatography, we obtain kinetic constants for initiation, elongation, and termination (release of the cellulose strand from the enzyme) for two bacterial cellulose synthases (

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PMID30023847
PMCPMC6044951
OpenAlexW2792563410

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