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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Cyanobacterial Septal Junctions: Properties and Regulation.

Enrique Flores, Mercedes Nieves-Morión, Conrad W Mullineaux

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Extracellular Metabolism Sets the Table for Microbial Cross-Feeding.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2021
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  15. Loss of Filamentous Multicellularity inJournal of bacteriology · 2020
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  19. Developmental Biology in Cyanobacteria.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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  20. Metalloproteins in the Biology of Heterocysts.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Enrique FloresInstituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad de Sevilla, Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Seville, Spain. eflores@ibvf.csic.es.
Mercedes Nieves-MoriónInstituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad de Sevilla, Américo Vespucio 49, 41092 Seville, Spain. mercedes.nieves@su.se.
Conrad W MullineauxSchool of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. c.mullineaux@qmul.ac.uk.
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ESInstituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis · ESQueen Mary University of London · GB

Funding

Spanish Government and European Regional Development Fund BFU2017-88202-P
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria are multicellular organisms that grow as chains of cells (filaments or trichomes) in which the cells exchange regulators and nutrients. In this article, we review the morphological, physiological and genetic data that have led to our current understanding of intercellular communication in these organisms. Intercellular molecular exchange appears to take place by simple diffusion through proteinaceous structures, known as septal junctions, which connect the adjacent cells in the filament and traverse the septal peptidoglycan through perforations known as nanopores. Proteins that are necessary to produce, and that may be components of, the septal junctions-SepJ, FraC and FraD-have been identified in the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium

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Anabaenabacterial multicellularityintercellular communication

Identifiers

PMID30577420
PMCPMC6463045
OpenAlexW2906118808

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