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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Class A PBPs have a distinct and unique role in the construction of the pneumococcal cell wall.

Daniel Straume, Katarzyna Wiaroslawa Piechowiak, Silje Olsen, Gro Anita Stamsås, Kari Helene Berg, Morten Kjos, Maria Victoria Heggenhougen, Martín Alcorlo, Juan A Hermoso, Leiv Sigve Håvarstein

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 66 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

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Daniel StraumeFaculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway.
Katarzyna Wiaroslawa PiechowiakFaculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway.
Silje OlsenFaculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway.
Gro Anita StamsåsFaculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway.
Kari Helene BergFaculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway.
Morten KjosFaculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-4448-9082
Maria Victoria HeggenhougenFaculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway.
Martín AlcorloDepartment of Crystallography and Structural Biology, Instituto de Química Física "Rocasolano," Spanish National Research Council, 28006 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8337-6203
Juan A HermosoDepartment of Crystallography and Structural Biology, Instituto de Química Física "Rocasolano," Spanish National Research Council, 28006 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1862-8950
Leiv Sigve HåvarsteinFaculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 1432 Ås, Norway; sigve.havarstein@nmbu.no.ORCID 0000-0001-8250-4322
Norwegian University of Life Sciences · NOConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

AmidohydrolasesBacterial ProteinsCell DivisionCell WallMembrane ProteinsPenicillin-Binding ProteinsPeptidoglycanStreptococcus pneumoniaeUridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic AcidAmidohydrolasesBacterial ProteinsCbpD protein, Streptococcus pneumoniaeFtsW protein, BacteriaMembrane Proteinsmuramyl-NAc-(pentapeptide)pyrophosphoryl-undecaprenolPenicillin-Binding ProteinsPeptidoglycanUridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic AcidCbpDclass A PBPspeptidoglycanStreptococcus pneumoniae

Identifiers

PMID32123104
PMCPMC7084106
OpenAlexW3010520564

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