Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32051588›Full record

ArticleNature2020

Evolution-guided discovery of antibiotics that inhibit peptidoglycan remodelling.

Elizabeth J Culp, Nicholas Waglechner, Wenliang Wang, Aline A Fiebig-Comyn, Yen-Pang Hsu, Kalinka Koteva, David Sychantha, Brian K Coombes, Michael S Van Nieuwenhze, Yves V Brun and 1 more

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 148 papers.

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148citing papers in PubMed
29.9field-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

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

148 citing papers in PubMed, 288 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Elizabeth J CulpM. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Nicholas WaglechnerM. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Wenliang WangM. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Aline A Fiebig-ComynM. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Yen-Pang HsuDepartment of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Kalinka KotevaM. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
David SychanthaM. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Brian K CoombesM. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Michael S Van NieuwenhzeDepartment of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Yves V BrunDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Gerard D WrightM. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, David Braley Centre for Antibiotic Discovery, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. wrightge@mcmaster.ca.
McMaster University · CAIndiana University Bloomington · USUniversité de Montréal · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Addressing the ongoing antibiotic crisis requires the discovery of compounds with novel mechanisms of action that are capable of treating drug-resistant infections

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsDrug DiscoveryPeptides, CyclicActinobacteriaAnimalsBiosynthetic PathwaysCell WallChlorophenolsDisease Models, AnimalDrug Resistance, MicrobialFemaleMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusMiceMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMultigene FamilyN-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine AmidaseAnti-Bacterial AgentsChlorophenolscomplestatincorbomycinN-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine AmidasePeptides, CyclicPeptidoglycan

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PMID32051588
OpenAlexW3006342711

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