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ArticlemSphere2020

The Parameter-Fitness Landscape of

Beverley C Kozuch, Marla G Shaffer, Matthew J Culyba

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Article in mSphere, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Adaptive evolvability through direct selection instead of indirect, second-order selection.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2022
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  8. Large-Scale Analysis of Fitness Cost ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Beverley C KozuchDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Marla G ShafferDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Matthew J CulybaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA matthew.culyba@pitt.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8327-4135
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Mechanism and Consequences of Temporal Gene Expression for SOS-induced MutagenesisK08AI127933 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CULYBA, MATTHEW J · 2017 to 2021
$797k
NIAID NIH HHS K08 AI127933
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Feedback mechanisms are fundamental to the control of physiological responses. One important example in gene regulation, termed negative autoregulation (NAR), occurs when a transcription factor (TF) inhibits its own production through transcriptional repression. This enables more-rapid homeostatic control of gene expression. NAR circuits presumably evolve to limit the fitness costs of gratuitous gene expression. The key biochemical reactions of NAR can be parameterized using a mathematical model of promoter activity; however, this model of NAR has been studied mostly in the context of synthetic NAR circuits that are disconnected from the target genes of the TFs. Thus, it remains unclear how constrained NAR parameters are in a native circuit context, where the TF target genes can have fitness effects on the cell. To quantify these constraints, we created a panel of

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialGene Regulatory NetworksGenetic FitnessHomeostasisBacterial ProteinsDNA DamageEscherichia coliLexA Repressor ProteinModels, TheoreticalPromoter Regions, GeneticSerine EndopeptidasesTranscription, GeneticBacterial ProteinsLexA Repressor ProteinSerine EndopeptidasesautoregulationDNA damagefeedbackLexASOS responsetranscription regulation

Identifiers

PMID32817380
PMCPMC7440846
OpenAlexW3055460607

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Registered trials

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