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ArticleNature microbiology2019

Phage tail fibre assembly proteins employ a modular structure to drive the correct folding of diverse fibres.

Olesia I North, Kouhei Sakai, Eiki Yamashita, Atsushi Nakagawa, Takuma Iwazaki, Carina R Büttner, Shigeki Takeda, Alan R Davidson

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Article in Nature microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Olesia I NorthDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9634-6377
Kouhei SakaiFaculty of Science and Technology, Division of Molecular Science, Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan.
Eiki YamashitaInstitute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4278-0039
Atsushi NakagawaInstitute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1700-7861
Takuma IwazakiFaculty of Science and Technology, Division of Molecular Science, Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan.
Carina R BüttnerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Shigeki TakedaFaculty of Science and Technology, Division of Molecular Science, Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan. stakeda@gunma-u.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8979-1133
Alan R DavidsonDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. alan.davidson@utoronto.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-9199
Gunma University · JPProtein Research Foundation · JPUniversity of Toronto · CACentral European Institute of Technology · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phage tail fibres are elongated protein assemblies capable of specific recognition of bacterial surfaces during the first step of viral infection

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceBacteriophagesCrystallography, X-RayEscherichia coliModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein FoldingProtein MultimerizationSequence AlignmentStructure-Activity RelationshipViral ProteinsViral Tail ProteinsViral ProteinsViral Tail Proteins

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PMID31209305
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