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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Polyphosphate is an extracellular signal that can facilitate bacterial survival in eukaryotic cells.

Ramesh Rijal, Louis A Cadena, Morgan R Smith, Joseph F Carr, Richard H Gomer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Polyphosphate kinase-1 regulates bacterial and host metabolic pathways involved in pathogenesis ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ramesh RijalDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3474.ORCID 0000-0003-0498-1064
Louis A CadenaDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3474.
Morgan R SmithDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3474.ORCID 0000-0002-3083-5354
Joseph F CarrDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3474.
Richard H GomerDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3474 rgomer@tamu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2361-4307
Texas A&M University · US

Funding

Elucidation of a eukaryotic chemorepulsion mechanismR01GM118355 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI GOMER, RICHARD H · 2016 to 2019
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118355
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyphosphate is a linear chain of phosphate residues and is present in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. Pathogens such as

Indexed as

PhagocytosisAcid Anhydride HydrolasesBacteriaCells, CulturedDictyosteliumHealthy VolunteersHumansHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationLysosomesMacrophagesPhagosomesPolyphosphatesPrimary Cell CultureRecombinant ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsAcid Anhydride HydrolasesendopolyphosphataseexopolyphosphatasePolyphosphatesRecombinant ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsBurkholderiaexopolyphosphataseMycobacterium tuberculosispolyphosphatepolyphosphate kinase

Identifiers

PMID33268492
PMCPMC7749317
OpenAlexW3110486933

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