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ArticlemBio2018

Chlorate Specifically Targets Oxidant-Starved, Antibiotic-Tolerant Populations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms.

Melanie A Spero, Dianne K Newman

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Article in mBio, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Isolation and identification of chlorate-reducingMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2023
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  14. Bacterial biofilms in the human body: prevalence and impacts on health and disease.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023
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  20. Computationally designed pyocyanin demethylase acts synergistically with tobramycin to kill recalcitrantProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melanie A SperoDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
Dianne K NewmanDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA dkn@caltech.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1647-1918
California Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Biological mechanisms and consequences of efficient extracellular electron transfer in Pseudomonas aeruginosaR01AI127850 · NIAID · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Dianne K Newman · 2017 to 2026
$5.6M
Geobiological approaches to understanding pulmonary infections in situR01HL117328 · NHLBI · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI NEWMAN, DIANNE K · 2012 to 2016
$2.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL117328NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127850
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitrate respiration is a widespread mode of anaerobic energy generation used by many bacterial pathogens, and the respiratory nitrate reductase, Nar, has long been known to reduce chlorate to the toxic oxidizing agent chlorite. Here, we demonstrate the antibacterial activity of chlorate against

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, BacterialAnaerobiosisAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsBiofilmsChloratesMutationNitratesOxidantsProdrugsPseudomonas aeruginosaTobramycinTrans-ActivatorsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsChloratesLasR protein, Pseudomonas aeruginosaNitratesOxidantsProdrugsTobramycinTrans-Activatorsantibiotic tolerancebiofilmschlorateNarnitrate reductionprodrugPseudomonas aeruginosa

Identifiers

PMID30254119
PMCPMC6156191
OpenAlexW2893242389

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Registered trials

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