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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2020

Dps Protects Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli against Acid-Induced Antimicrobial Peptide Killing.

Tracy Lackraj, Sarah Birstonas, Michele Kacori, Debora Barnett Foster

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 33% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Characterizing the Impact of Nucleoid-Associated Proteins on HU-DNA Interactions by Live-Cell Single-Molecule Tracking.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2026
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  5. Dps binds and protects DNA in starvedbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  6. The Dps Protein ProtectsInternational journal of molecular sciences · 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tracy Lackraj *Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sarah Birstonas *Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Michele KacoriDepartment of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Debora Barnett FosterDepartment of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada dfoster@ryerson.ca.
Toronto Metropolitan University · CAUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dps, a DNA-binding protein from starved cells in

Indexed as

AcidsAnimalsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsEscherichia coli InfectionsEscherichia coli O157Escherichia coli ProteinsHumansMicePore Forming Cytotoxic ProteinsAcidsBacterial Outer Membrane Proteinsdps protein, E coliEscherichia coli ProteinsPore Forming Cytotoxic Proteinsacid resistanceantimicrobial peptideantimicrobialsDNA damagedpsDpsEHEC O157:H7enterohemorrhagic E. coli

Identifiers

PMID32229529
PMCPMC7221257
OpenAlexW3013683764

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.