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ArticleeLife2021

PomX, a ParA/MinD ATPase activating protein, is a triple regulator of cell division in

Dominik Schumacher, Andrea Harms, Silke Bergeler, Erwin Frey, Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. In situ architecture of a nucleoid-associated biomolecular co-condensate that regulates bacterial cell division.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dominik SchumacherDepartment of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch, Marburg, Germany.
Andrea HarmsDepartment of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch, Marburg, Germany.
Silke BergelerArnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.
Erwin FreyArnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8792-3358
Lotte Søgaard-AndersenDepartment of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch, Marburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0674-0013
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology · DECenter for NanoScience · DE

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft TRR 174Max Planck Gesellschaft NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell division site positioning is precisely regulated but the underlying mechanisms are incompletely understood. In the social bacterium

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsCell DivisionMyxococcus xanthusBacterial Proteinschromosome partition proteins, bacterialbacterial cell divisioncell biologyFtsZinfectious diseasemicrobiologyMinDMinEParAParB

Identifiers

PMID33734087
PMCPMC7993993
OpenAlexW3138295758

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