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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018

Tunicamycin Mediated Inhibition of Wall Teichoic Acid Affects

Xingyue Zhu, Dongqi Liu, Atul K Singh, Rishi Drolia, Xingjian Bai, Shivendra Tenguria, Arun K Bhunia

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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 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Xingyue ZhuMolecular Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Dongqi LiuMolecular Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Atul K SinghMolecular Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Rishi DroliaMolecular Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Xingjian BaiMolecular Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Shivendra TenguriaMolecular Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Arun K BhuniaMolecular Food Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Purdue University West Lafayette · USNanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of bacterial resistance to therapeutic antibiotics limits options for treatment of common microbial diseases. Subinhibitory antibiotics dosing, often aid in the emergence of resistance, but its impact on pathogen's physiology and pathogenesis is not well understood. Here we investigated the effect of tunicamycin, a cell wall teichoic acid (WTA) biosynthesis inhibiting antibiotic at the subinhibitory dosage on

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antibiotic resistancebacterial virulencebiofilmListeria monocytogenesoptical scatter patternsStaphylococcus aureustunicamycinwall teichoic acid

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PMID30034372
PMCPMC6043806
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