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ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2020

Nucleotide second messengers in bacterial decision making.

Catriona Ma Thompson, Jacob G Malone

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Review in Current opinion in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Signaling inComputational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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  6. Metabolomic Analysis of the Effect ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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

2 authors.

Catriona Ma ThompsonMolecular Microbiology Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK; School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Jacob G MaloneMolecular Microbiology Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK; School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Electronic address: jacob.malone@jic.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R018154
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the initial discovery of bacterial nucleotide second messengers (NSMs), we have made huge progress towards understanding these complex signalling networks. Many NSM networks contain dozens of metabolic enzymes and binding targets, whose activity is tightly controlled at every regulatory level. They function as global regulators and in specific signalling circuits, controlling multiple aspects of bacterial behaviour and development. Despite these advances there is much still to discover, with current research focussing on the molecular mechanisms of signalling circuits, the role of the environment in controlling NSM pathways and attempts to understand signalling at the whole cell/community level. Here we examine recent developments in the NSM signalling field and discuss their implications for understanding this important driver of microbial behaviour.

Indexed as

BacteriaBacterial Physiological PhenomenaBacterial ProteinsBiofilmsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialNucleotidesNucleotides, CyclicSecond Messenger SystemsSignal TransductionBacterial ProteinsNucleotidesNucleotides, Cyclic

Identifiers

PMID32172083
PMCPMC7322531

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