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ArticlemBio2020

Complete Structure of the Enterococcal Polysaccharide Antigen (EPA) of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis V583 Reveals that EPA Decorations Are Teichoic Acids Covalently Linked to a Rhamnopolysaccharide Backbone.

Yann Guerardel, Irina Sadovskaya, Emmanuel Maes, Sylviane Furlan, Marie-Pierre Chapot-Chartier, Stéphane Mesnage, Lionel Rigottier-Gois, Pascale Serror

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Article in mBio, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 62 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

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Yann GuerardelUniv. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576-UGSF-Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Lille, France Yann.Guerardel@univ-lille.fr pascale.serror@inrae.fr.ORCID 0000-0003-4967-9512
Irina SadovskayaUniv. Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 1158 BioEcoAgro, TERRA Viollette, USC Anses, INRAe, Univ. Lille, Univ. Artois, Univ. Picardie Jules Verne, Univ. Liège, Yncréa, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7574-3824
Emmanuel MaesUniv. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576-UGSF-Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Lille, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0607-963X
Sylviane FurlanUniversité Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
Marie-Pierre Chapot-ChartierUniversité Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, Jouy-en-Josas, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4947-0519
Stéphane MesnageUniversity of Sheffield, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sheffield, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1648-4890
Lionel Rigottier-GoisUniversité Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, Jouy-en-Josas, France.ORCID 0000-0003-1561-7700
Pascale SerrorUniversité Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, Jouy-en-Josas, France Yann.Guerardel@univ-lille.fr pascale.serror@inrae.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-8446-9011
AgroParisTech · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité de Lille · FRUniversity of Sheffield · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All enterococci produce a complex polysaccharide called the

Indexed as

Antigens, BacterialDeoxy SugarsEnterococcus faecalisHumansMannansPolysaccharidesTeichoic AcidsVancomycin-Resistant EnterococciAntigens, BacterialDeoxy SugarsMannansPolysaccharidesrhamnanTeichoic Acidscell wall polysaccharideE. faecalisenterococcal polysaccharide antigenEnterococcus faecalisrhamnanteichoic acids

Identifiers

PMID32345640
PMCPMC7188991
OpenAlexW3017490302

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