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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Membrane perforation by the pore-forming toxin pneumolysin.

Martin Vögele, Ramachandra M Bhaskara, Estefania Mulvihill, Katharina van Pee, Özkan Yildiz, Werner Kühlbrandt, Daniel J Müller, Gerhard Hummer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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56citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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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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

56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Martin VögeleDepartment of Theoretical Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Ramachandra M BhaskaraDepartment of Theoretical Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Estefania MulvihillDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Katharina van PeeDepartment of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Özkan YildizDepartment of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3659-2805
Werner KühlbrandtDepartment of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2013-4810
Daniel J MüllerDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Gerhard HummerDepartment of Theoretical Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; gerhard.hummer@biophys.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0001-7768-746X
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics · DEETH Zurich · CHGoethe University Frankfurt · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pneumolysin (PLY), a major virulence factor of

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsCell MembraneCholesterolCryoelectron MicroscopyLipid BilayersMicroscopy, Atomic ForceMolecular Dynamics SimulationStreptolysinsBacterial ProteinsCholesterolLipid BilayersplY protein, Streptococcus pneumoniaeStreptolysinscholesterol-dependent cytolysinmembrane porepneumolysinpore-forming toxin

Identifiers

PMID31209022
PMCPMC6613103
OpenAlexW2951391808

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