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ArticleAMB Express2018

Identification of two genes required for heptadecane production in a N

Jaimie Gibbons, Liping Gu, Huilan Zhu, William Gibbons, Ruanbao Zhou

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Article in AMB Express, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 49% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Insights into cyanobacterial alkane biosynthesis.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2022
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  3. Double Crossover Approach to Inactivate Target Gene in Cyanobacteria.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jaimie GibbonsDepartment of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA.
Liping GuDepartment of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA. Liping.Gu@sdstate.edu.
Huilan ZhuDepartment of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA.
William GibbonsDepartment of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA.
Ruanbao ZhouDepartment of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA. ruanbao.zhou@sdstate.edu.
South Dakota State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyanobacteria photosynthetically produce long-chain hydrocarbons, which are considered as infrastructure-compatible biofuels. However, native cyanobacteria do not produce these hydrocarbons at sufficient rates or yields to warrant commercial deployment. This research sought to identify specific genes required for photosynthetic production of alkanes to enable future metabolic engineering for commercially viable production of alkanes. The two putative genes (alr5283 and alr5284) required for long-chain hydrocarbon production in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 were knocked out through a double crossover approach. The knockout mutant abolished the production of heptadecane (C

Indexed as

Alkane biosynthesisBiofuelsCyanobacteriaHydrocarbonsNitrogen fixation

Identifiers

PMID30317393
PMCPMC6186262
OpenAlexW2897290414

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