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ArticlemBio2018

Epiplasts: Membrane Skeletons and Epiplastin Proteins in Euglenids, Glaucophytes, Cryptophytes, Ciliates, Dinoflagellates, and Apicomplexans.

Ursula Goodenough, Robyn Roth, Thamali Kariyawasam, Amelia He, Jae-Hyeok Lee

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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 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 26 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ursula GoodenoughDepartment of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA goodenough@wustl.edu jae-hyeok.lee@botany.ubc.ca.
Robyn RothCenter for Cellular Imaging, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Thamali KariyawasamDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Amelia HeDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jae-Hyeok LeeDepartment of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada goodenough@wustl.edu jae-hyeok.lee@botany.ubc.ca.
University of British Columbia · CAWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals and amoebae assemble actin/spectrin-based plasma membrane skeletons, forming what is often called the cell cortex, whereas euglenids and alveolates (ciliates, dinoflagellates, and apicomplexans) have been shown to assemble a thin, viscoelastic, actin/spectrin-free membrane skeleton, here called the epiplast. Epiplasts include a class of proteins, here called the epiplastins, with a head/medial/tail domain organization, whose medial domains have been characterized in previous studies by their low-complexity amino acid composition. We have identified two additional features of the medial domains: a strong enrichment of acid/base amino acid dyads and a predicted β-strand/random coil secondary structure. These features have served to identify members in two additional unicellular eukaryotic radiations-the glaucophytes and cryptophytes-as well as additional members in the alveolates and euglenids. We have analyzed the amino acid composition and domain structure of 219 epiplastin sequences and have used quick-freeze deep-etch electron microscopy to visualize the epiplasts of glaucophytes and cryptophytes. We define epiplastins as proteins encoded in organisms that assemble epiplasts, but epiplastin-like proteins, of unknown function, are also encoded in Insecta, Basidiomycetes, and

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Algal ProteinsAlveolataAmino AcidsCryoelectron MicroscopyCryptophytaEuglenidaMacromolecular SubstancesMembrane ProteinsProtein ConformationProtein DomainsProtein MultimerizationProtozoan ProteinsAlgal ProteinsAmino AcidsMacromolecular SubstancesMembrane ProteinsProtozoan Proteinselectron microscopyeukaryotic microalgaeevolutionmembrane skeletonprotists

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PMID30377285
PMCPMC6212826
OpenAlexW2899278889

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