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ReviewBMC biology2020

Protein assembly systems in natural and synthetic biology.

Giulio Chiesa, Szilvia Kiriakov, Ahmad S Khalil

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Review in BMC biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. A self-assembling surface layer flattens the cytokinetic furrow to aid cell division in an archaeon.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Assembly and Functionality of 2D Protein Arrays.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  9. Marula [Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025
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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

3 authors.

Giulio ChiesaBiological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Szilvia KiriakovBiological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
Ahmad S KhalilBiological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. khalil@bu.edu.

Funding

Combatting antibiotic resistance with synthetic biology technologiesDP2AI131083 · NIAID · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI KHALIL, AHMAD SAMIR · 2016 to 2016
$2.5M
NIAID NIH HHS DP2 AI131083
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The traditional view of protein aggregation as being strictly disease-related has been challenged by many examples of cellular aggregates that regulate beneficial biological functions. When coupled with the emerging view that many regulatory proteins undergo phase separation to form dynamic cellular compartments, it has become clear that supramolecular assembly plays wide-ranging and critical roles in cellular regulation. This presents opportunities to develop new tools to probe and illuminate this biology, and to harness the unique properties of these self-assembling systems for synthetic biology for the purposeful manipulation of biological function.

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Synthetic BiologyProteinsProteins

Identifiers

PMID32216777
PMCPMC7099826

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