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ReviewEcoSal Plus2019

Promises and Challenges of the Type Three Secretion System Injectisome as an Antivirulence Target.

Alyssa C Fasciano, Lamyaa Shaban, Joan Mecsas

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Review in EcoSal Plus, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Anti-infective compounds forSustainable microbiology · 2026
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  2. Beyond Antibiotics: What the Future Holds.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  3. Vaccines · 2024
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  4. Microbial Genomics: Innovative Targets and Mechanisms.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Alyssa C FascianoProgram in Immunology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111.
Lamyaa ShabanProgram in Molecular Microbiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111.
Joan MecsasDepartment of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111.
Tufts University · US

Funding

Interaction of enteropathogenic Yersinia and Vibrio cholera with engineered human intestinal tissueU19AI131126 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI ISBERG, RALPH R., KAPLAN, DAVID L. · 2017 to 2021
$8.1M
MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF MICROBIAL PATHOGENST32AI007422 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI Ralph R. Isberg · 1992 to 2026
$5.7M
IMMUNOLOGIC ASPECTS OF DISEASET32AI007077 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI WORTIS, HENRY H. · 1985 to 2017
$3.5M
Initiation and regulation of antibacterial innate immunityR01AI113166 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI MECSAS, JOAN C · 2014 to 2018
$2.4M
T3SS needle protein inhibitors for the treatment of P. aeruginosa infectionR41AI122433 · NIAID · MICROBIOTIX, INC · PI MECSAS, JOAN C · 2016 to 2017
$601k
A tunable 3D human small intestinal tissue model for study of enteric pathogensR21AI128093 · NIAID · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI MECSAS, JOAN C · 2017 to 2018
$441k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI113166NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI128093NIAID NIH HHS R41 AI122433NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007077NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007422NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI131126
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibiotic resistance is a major public health threat that has stimulated the scientific community to search for nontraditional therapeutic targets. Because virulence, but not the growth, of many Gram-negative bacterial pathogens depends on the multicomponent type three secretion system injectisome (T3SSi), the T3SSi has been an attractive target for identifying small molecules, peptides, and monoclonal antibodies that inhibit its function to render the pathogen avirulent. While many small-molecule lead compounds have been identified in whole-cell-based high-throughput screens (HTSs), only a few protein targets of these compounds are known; such knowledge is an important step to developing more potent and specific inhibitors. Evaluation of the efficacy of compounds in animal studies is ongoing. Some efforts involving the development of antibodies and vaccines that target the T3SSi are further along and include an antibody that is currently in phase II clinical trials. Continued research into these antivirulence therapies, used alone or in combination with traditional antibiotics, requires combined efforts from both pharmaceutical companies and academic labs.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsClinical Trials as TopicGram-Negative BacteriaGram-Negative Bacterial InfectionsHumansMiceType III Secretion SystemsVirulenceAnti-Bacterial AgentsType III Secretion Systems

Identifiers

PMID30706846
PMCPMC6367940
OpenAlexW2913216846

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