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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2020

The Stress-Responsive Alternative Sigma Factor SigB of

Facundo Rodriguez Ayala, Marco Bartolini, Roberto Grau

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Review 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 57 papers.

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57citing papers in PubMed
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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

57 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Expression of theApplied and environmental microbiology · 2026
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  6. Evolutionary bioenergetics of sporulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. Sigma B regulated motility and chemotaxis inMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2026
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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

3 authors.

Facundo Rodriguez AyalaDepartamento de Micro y Nanotecnología, Instituto de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología - Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Marco BartoliniConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Roberto GrauConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alternative sigma factors have led the core RNA polymerase (RNAP) to recognize different sets of promoters to those recognized by the housekeeping sigma A-directed RNAP. This change in RNAP promoter selectivity allows a rapid and flexible reformulation of the genetic program to face environmental and metabolic stimuli that could compromise bacterial fitness. The model bacterium

Indexed as

alternative sigma factorsBacillus subtilisbiocontrolbiofilm fitnessgeneral stress responseSigBsporulation

Identifiers

PMID33042030
PMCPMC7522486

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