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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2018

DNA Methylation by Restriction Modification Systems Affects the Global Transcriptome Profile in Borrelia burgdorferi.

Timothy Casselli, Yvonne Tourand, Adam Scheidegger, William K Arnold, Anna Proulx, Brian Stevenson, Catherine A Brissette

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 55 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Timothy CasselliDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA timothy.casselli@med.und.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1954-2443
Yvonne TourandDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.
Adam ScheideggerDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.
William K ArnoldDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, School of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Anna ProulxDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.
Brian StevensonDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, School of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Catherine A BrissetteDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.
University of North Dakota · USUniversity of Kentucky · US

Funding

The role of class IIa Hdac in regulating cell fate choice in early cortical development.P20GM104360 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA · PI VAUGHAN, ROXANNE A · 2013 to 2023
$21.1M
Yersina perstis interactions with macrophagesP20GM113123 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA · PI COMBS, COLIN K · 2016 to 2025
$19.9M
The Borrelia burgdorferi transcriptional regulomeR03AI113648 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI STEVENSON, BRIAN · 2014 to 2015
$177k
NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI113648NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM104360NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM113123
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prokaryote restriction modification (RM) systems serve to protect bacteria from potentially detrimental foreign DNA. Recent evidence suggests that DNA methylation by the methyltransferase (MTase) components of RM systems can also have effects on transcriptome profiles. The type strain of the causative agent of Lyme disease,

Indexed as

DNA MethylationBacterial ProteinsBorrelia burgdorferiDNA, BacterialDNA Restriction-Modification EnzymesGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialSequence Analysis, RNAWhole Genome SequencingBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDNA Restriction-Modification EnzymesBorrelia burgdorferiDNA methylationepigeneticsLyme diseasemethyltransferaseregulation of gene expressionrestriction modificationsingle-molecule real-time sequencing

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PMID30249703
PMCPMC6256022
OpenAlexW2883079726

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