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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2020

MapA, a Second Large RTX Adhesin Conserved across the Pseudomonads, Contributes to Biofilm Formation by Pseudomonas fluorescens.

Alan J Collins, Alexander B Pastora, T Jarrod Smith, George A O'Toole

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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 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 37 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alan J CollinsDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4960-5716
Alexander B Pastora *Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7447-5218
T Jarrod Smith *Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
George A O'TooleDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA georgeo@dartmouth.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-2861-4392
Dartmouth College · US

Funding

Translational Engineering in Cancer (TEC)P30CA023108 · NCI · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI Steven D Leach · 1985 to 2026
$91.3M
HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONST32AI007519 · NIAID · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI DEBORAH A HOGAN · 1997 to 2026
$5.9M
Molecular mechanism regulating periplasmic proteolysis in bacterial pathogenesisR01GM123609 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI O'TOOLE, GEORGE A., SONDERMANN, HOLGER · 2017 to 2020
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA023108NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007519NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123609
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanisms by which cells attach to a surface and form a biofilm are diverse and differ greatly among organisms. The Gram-negative gammaproteobacterium

Indexed as

Bacterial AdhesionAdhesins, BacterialBiofilmsCell MembraneGene Expression Regulation, BacterialPeriplasmPseudomonas fluorescensAdhesins, Bacterialadhesinbiofilmcyclic di-GMPPseudomonas fluorescensRTX

Identifiers

PMID32631946
PMCPMC7925077
OpenAlexW3038777611

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Registered trials

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