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ArticlemBio2020

Melanization in Cryptococcus neoformans Requires Complex Regulation.

Radames J B Cordero, Emma Camacho, Arturo Casadevall

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Article in mBio, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Regulation of melanin production in fungi.Frontiers in fungal biology · 2025
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  8. Mechanisms and Virulence Factors ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  12. A food color based colorimetric assay forbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  13. Comparative genomics ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  15. Measuring Laccase Activity and Melanin Production in Cryptococcus neoformans.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  17. Protein Kinase A Controls the Melanization ofAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  18. Melanization ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  19. FasterJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Radames J B CorderoDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3026-7094
Emma CamachoDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Arturo CasadevallDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA acasade1@jhu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9402-9167
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Biology of Fungal MelaninR01AI052733 · NIAID · YESHIVA UNIVERSITY · PI CASADEVALL, ARTURO · 2003 to 2019
$6.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI052733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fungal human pathogen

Indexed as

Anti-Infective AgentsCryptococcosisCryptococcus neoformansHumansMelaninsSignal TransductionTranscription FactorsAnti-Infective AgentsMelaninsTranscription FactorsBzp4Cryptococcus neoformansGsk1laccaseMbs1melaninmelanin-regulating core transcription factorsmelanin regulationmelanizationMRC-TFnutrient starvation responseUsv101

Identifiers

PMID32019794
PMCPMC7002353
OpenAlexW3004456936

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Registered trials

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