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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Bottom-up single-molecule strategy for understanding subunit function of tetrameric β-galactosidase.

Xiang Li, Yu Jiang, Shaorong Chong, David R Walt

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Anfinsen Redux: Ribonuclease Folding in the Single-Molecule Regime.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  4. Single molecule delivery into living cells.Nature communications · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiang LiDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Yu JiangDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Shaorong ChongNew England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA 01938.
David R WaltDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; dwalt@bwh.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5524-7348
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USNew England Biolabs (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we report an example of the engineered expression of tetrameric β-galactosidase (β-gal) containing varying numbers of active monomers. Specifically, by combining wild-type and single-nucleotide polymorphism plasmids at varying ratios, tetrameric β-gal was expressed in vitro with one to four active monomers. The kinetics of individual enzyme molecules revealed four distinct populations, corresponding to the number of active monomers in the enzyme. Using single-molecule-level enzyme kinetics, we were able to measure an accurate in vitro mistranslation frequency (5.8 × 10

Indexed as

Protein Multimerizationbeta-GalactosidaseKineticsPlasmidsPolymorphism, Single NucleotideProtein BiosynthesisProtein Subunitsbeta-GalactosidaseProtein Subunitsin vitro expressionmistranslationβ-galactosidase

Identifiers

PMID30061400
PMCPMC6099853
OpenAlexW2885439034

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