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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2019

Protein post-translational modifications in bacteria.

Boris Macek, Karl Forchhammer, Julie Hardouin, Eilika Weber-Ban, Christophe Grangeasse, Ivan Mijakovic

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Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 222 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
222citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
12.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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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

222 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 407 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

6 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.

Boris MacekProteome Center Tübingen, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. boris.macek@uni-tuebingen.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1206-2458
Karl ForchhammerOrganismic Interactions, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Julie HardouinPISSARO Proteomic Platform, University of Rouen, Rouen, France.
Eilika Weber-BanInstitute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5773-9274
Christophe GrangeasseLaboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, CNRS UMR 5086, University of Lyon, Lyon, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5484-4589
Ivan MijakovicSystems and Synthetic Biology, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
University of Tübingen · DEETH Zurich · CHNovo Nordisk Foundation · DKUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRUniversité de Rouen Normandie · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past decade the number and variety of protein post-translational modifications that have been detected and characterized in bacteria have rapidly increased. Most post-translational protein modifications occur in a relatively low number of bacterial proteins in comparison with eukaryotic proteins, and most of the modified proteins carry low, substoichiometric levels of modification; therefore, their structural and functional analysis is particularly challenging. The number of modifying enzymes differs greatly among bacterial species, and the extent of the modified proteome strongly depends on environmental conditions. Nevertheless, evidence is rapidly accumulating that protein post-translational modifications have vital roles in various cellular processes such as protein synthesis and turnover, nitrogen metabolism, the cell cycle, dormancy, sporulation, spore germination, persistence and virulence. Further research of protein post-translational modifications will fill current gaps in the understanding of bacterial physiology and open new avenues for treatment of infectious diseases.

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Protein Processing, Post-TranslationalBacteriaBacterial ProteinsBacterial Proteins

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PMID31485032
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