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ReviewPLoS pathogens2021

Bacterial nucleomodulins: A coevolutionary adaptation to the eukaryotic command center.

Hannah E Hanford, Juanita Von Dwingelo, Yousef Abu Kwaik

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Review in PLoS pathogens, 2021. 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
5.5field-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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Histone modification cross talk between a host and pathogen.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Epigenetic Reprogramming byAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  7. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  12. Identification of candidate nucleomodulins in ESKAPE bacteria -Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  16. CanFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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  19. Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  20. Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024
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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.

Hannah E HanfordDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-4851-998X
Juanita Von DwingeloDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America.
Yousef Abu KwaikDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-2119-2078
University of Louisville · US

Funding

Innate immunity and inflammatory response of macrophages to Legionella infectionR01AI140195 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI ABU KWAIK, YOUSEF A · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Legionella-Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes InteractionR21AI142727 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI ABU KWAIK, YOUSEF A, URIARTE, SILVIA M · 2020 to 2021
$429k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI140195NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI142727
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Through long-term interactions with their hosts, bacterial pathogens have evolved unique arsenals of effector proteins that interact with specific host targets and reprogram the host cell into a permissive niche for pathogen proliferation. The targeting of effector proteins into the host cell nucleus for modulation of nuclear processes is an emerging theme among bacterial pathogens. These unique pathogen effector proteins have been termed in recent years as "nucleomodulins." The first nucleomodulins were discovered in the phytopathogens Agrobacterium and Xanthomonas, where their nucleomodulins functioned as eukaryotic transcription factors or integrated themselves into host cell DNA to promote tumor induction, respectively. Numerous nucleomodulins were recently identified in mammalian pathogens. Bacterial nucleomodulins are an emerging family of pathogen effector proteins that evolved to target specific components of the host cell command center through various mechanisms. These mechanisms include: chromatin dynamics, histone modification, DNA methylation, RNA splicing, DNA replication, cell cycle, and cell signaling pathways. Nucleomodulins may induce short- or long-term epigenetic modifications of the host cell. In this extensive review, we discuss the current knowledge of nucleomodulins from plant and mammalian pathogens. While many nucleomodulins are already identified, continued research is instrumental in understanding their mechanisms of action and the role they play during the progression of pathogenesis. The continued study of nucleomodulins will enhance our knowledge of their effects on nuclear chromatin dynamics, protein homeostasis, transcriptional landscapes, and the overall host cell epigenome.

Indexed as

Host-Pathogen InteractionsBacteriaBacterial ProteinsCell NucleusDNA ReplicationEukaryotaHumansSignal TransductionVirulence FactorsBacterial ProteinsVirulence Factors

Identifiers

PMID33476322
PMCPMC7819608
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