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ArticlemBio2018

The Meningococcal Cysteine Transport System Plays a Crucial Role in

Hideyuki Takahashi, Haruo Watanabe, Kwang Sik Kim, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Tatsuo Yanagisawa

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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 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hideyuki TakahashiDepartment of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan hideyuki@nih.go.jp.
Haruo WatanabeDepartment of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Kwang Sik KimDivision of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Shigeyuki YokoyamaRIKEN Structural Biology Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan.
Tatsuo YanagisawaRIKEN Structural Biology Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan.
International University of Health and Welfare · JPJohns Hopkins Medicine · USNational Institute of Infectious Diseases · JP

Funding

Host factors and bacterial meningitisR01NS091102 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KIM, KWANG S · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS091102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While

Indexed as

Microbial ViabilityCells, CulturedCulture MediaCysteineEndocytosisEndothelial CellsGene DeletionGenetic Complementation TestHumansMembrane Transport ProteinsNeisseria meningitidisVirulenceVirulence FactorsCulture MediaCysteineMembrane Transport ProteinsVirulence Factorsbloodcerebrospinal fluidcysteineglutathioneinternalizationintracellular growthNeisseria meningitidisreactive oxygen speciesserumsurvival

Identifiers

PMID30538184
PMCPMC6299482
OpenAlexW2905086722

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Registered trials

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