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ArticleNature2018

Genome organization and DNA accessibility control antigenic variation in trypanosomes.

Laura S M Müller, Raúl O Cosentino, Konrad U Förstner, Julien Guizetti, Carolin Wedel, Noam Kaplan, Christian J Janzen, Panagiota Arampatzi, Jörg Vogel, Sascha Steinbiss and 4 more

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Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers.

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136citing papers in PubMed
14.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

136 citing papers in PubMed, 219 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.

Laura S M Müller *Department of Veterinary Sciences, Experimental Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Raúl O Cosentino *Department of Veterinary Sciences, Experimental Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Konrad U FörstnerZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences, Cologne, Germany.
Julien GuizettiResearch Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Carolin WedelResearch Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Noam KaplanDepartment of Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Christian J JanzenDepartment of Cell & Developmental Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Panagiota ArampatziCore Unit Systems Medicine, Institute of Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Jörg VogelHelmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany.
Sascha SteinbissWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Thomas D OttoWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Antoine-Emmanuel SalibaHelmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany.
Robert P SebraIcahn Institute and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
T Nicolai SiegelDepartment of Veterinary Sciences, Experimental Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany. n.siegel@lmu.de.
University of Würzburg · DEHelmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology · ILUniversity of Glasgow · GBWellcome Sanger Institute · GBZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences · DE

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 098051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many evolutionarily distant pathogenic organisms have evolved similar survival strategies to evade the immune responses of their hosts. These include antigenic variation, through which an infecting organism prevents clearance by periodically altering the identity of proteins that are visible to the immune system of the host

Indexed as

Antigenic VariationChromatinDNA, ProtozoanGenomeHaplotypesHistonesMultigene FamilyProtein IsoformsTrypanosoma brucei bruceiVariant Surface Glycoproteins, TrypanosomaChromatinDNA, ProtozoanHistonesProtein IsoformsVariant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosoma

Identifiers

PMID30333624
PMCPMC6784898
OpenAlexW2897353357

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