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

Identification of signaling pathways, matrix-digestion enzymes, and motility components controlling

Andrew A Bridges, Chenyi Fei, Bonnie L Bassler

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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 46 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
46citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

46 citing papers in PubMed, 62 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew A BridgesDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.ORCID 0000-0002-8132-751X
Chenyi FeiDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.ORCID 0000-0002-8287-4347
Bonnie L BasslerDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; bbassler@princeton.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0043-746X
Princeton University · US

Funding

Intra- and Inter- Species Communication in BacteriaR37GM065859 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI BASSLER, BONNIE L · 2016 to 2025
$3.4M
Howard Hughes Medical Institute DRG-2302-17NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM065859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteria alternate between being free-swimming and existing as members of sessile multicellular communities called biofilms. The biofilm lifecycle occurs in three stages: cell attachment, biofilm maturation, and biofilm dispersal.

Indexed as

Adhesins, BacterialAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsBiofilmsCyclic GMPEnzymesGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMutationOperonSignal TransductionTime-Lapse ImagingVibrio choleraeAdhesins, BacterialAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Proteinsbis(3',5')-cyclic diguanylic acidCyclic GMPEnzymesbiofilm dispersalhigh-content imagingsignal transductionVibrio choleraevirulence

Identifiers

PMID33288715
PMCPMC7768729
OpenAlexW3110720824

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Registered trials

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