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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2020

Fic Proteins Inhibit the Activity of Topoisomerase IV by AMPylation in Diverse Bacteria.

Can-Hua Lu, Alix McCloskey, Fu-Rong Chen, Ernesto S Nakayasu, Li-Qun Zhang, Zhao-Qing Luo

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 40% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. AMPylation: key roles in biological regulation across prokaryotes and eukaryotes.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  3. Population and pan-genomic analyses ofApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
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  7. MS-BasedACS infectious diseases · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Can-Hua LuYunnan Academy of Tobacco Agriculture Science, Kunming, China.
Alix McCloskeyDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Fu-Rong ChenDepartment of Plant Pathology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Ernesto S NakayasuBiological Science Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States.
Li-Qun ZhangDepartment of Plant Pathology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Zhao-Qing LuoDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States.
Purdue University West Lafayette · USChina Agricultural University · CNPacific Northwest National Laboratory · US

Funding

Effector-mediated Ubiquitin Manipulation in Legionella Pneumophila PathogenesisR01AI127465 · NIAID · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI Qing Deng · 2017 to 2026
$3.4M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127465
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Fic (filamentation induced by cyclic AMP) domain is a widely distributed motif with a conserved sequence of HPFx[D/E]GN[G/K]R, some of which regulate cellular activity by catalyzing the transfer of the AMP moiety from ATP to protein substrates. Some Fic proteins, including Fic-1 from the soil bacterium

Indexed as

AMPylationcell filamentationDNA gyraseDNA replicationfilamentation induced by cAMPpost-translational modificationtopoisomerase IVtoxin-antitoxin

Identifiers

PMID32983060
PMCPMC7479194
OpenAlexW3080932840

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