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ArticleScientific reports2018

Increased sporulation underpins adaptation of Clostridium difficile strain 630 to a biologically-relevant faecal environment, with implications for pathogenicity.

Nigel George Ternan, Nicola Diana Moore, Deborah Smyth, Gordon James McDougall, James William Allwood, Susan Verrall, Christopher Ian Richard Gill, James Stephen Gerard Dooley, Geoff McMullan

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
54.2field-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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 379 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nigel George TernanNutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland, BT52 1SA, United Kingdom. ng.ternan@ulster.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1788-7571
Nicola Diana MooreNutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland, BT52 1SA, United Kingdom.
Deborah SmythNutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland, BT52 1SA, United Kingdom.
Gordon James McDougallEnvironmental and Biochemical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland, DD2 5DA, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2285-0124
James William AllwoodEnvironmental and Biochemical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland, DD2 5DA, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6433-2694
Susan VerrallEnvironmental and Biochemical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, Scotland, DD2 5DA, United Kingdom.
Christopher Ian Richard GillNutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland, BT52 1SA, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4335-7571
James Stephen Gerard DooleyNutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, N. Ireland, BT52 1SA, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9459-5572
Geoff McMullanInstitute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT9 7BL, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6511-2925
University of Ulster · GBJames Hutton Institute · GBQueen's University Belfast · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clostridium difficile virulence is driven primarily by the processes of toxinogenesis and sporulation, however many in vitro experimental systems for studying C. difficile physiology have arguably limited relevance to the human colonic environment. We therefore created a more physiologically-relevant model of the colonic milieu to study gut pathogen biology, incorporating human faecal water (FW) into growth media and assessing the physiological effects of this on C. difficile strain 630. We identified a novel set of C. difficile-derived metabolites in culture supernatants, including hexanoyl- and pentanoyl-amino acid derivatives by LC-MS

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalBacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsChromatography, LiquidClostridioides difficileFecesGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMass SpectrometrySequence Analysis, RNASpores, BacterialTranscriptomeVirulenceBacterial Proteins

Identifiers

PMID30420658
PMCPMC6232153
OpenAlexW2900015460

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