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ArticleeLife2021

An essential, kinetoplastid-specific GDP-Fuc: β-D-Gal α-1,2-fucosyltransferase is located in the mitochondrion of

Giulia Bandini, Sebastian Damerow, Maria Lucia Sempaio Guther, Hongjie Guo, Angela Mehlert, Jose Carlos Paredes Franco, Stephen Beverley, Michael Aj Ferguson

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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 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Aberrant Protein Glycosylation in Brain Cancers, with Emphasis on Glioblastoma.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022
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  6. A broadly active fucosyltransferase LmjFUT1 whose mitochondrial localization and activity are essential in parasiticProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Giulia Bandini *Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-8885-3643
Sebastian Damerow *Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.
Maria Lucia Sempaio GutherWellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.
Hongjie GuoDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, United States.
Angela MehlertWellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.
Jose Carlos Paredes FrancoWellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.
Stephen BeverleyDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, United States.
Michael Aj FergusonWellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1321-8714
University of Dundee · GBWashington University in St. Louis · USThe University of Melbourne · AU

Funding

GLYCOSYLATION MUTANTS OF LEISHMANIAR01AI031078 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BEVERLEY, STEPHEN M · 1992 to 2019
$11.4M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI031078Wellcome Trust 101842
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fucose is a common component of eukaryotic cell-surface glycoconjugates, generally added by Golgi-resident fucosyltransferases. Whereas fucosylated glycoconjugates are rare in kinetoplastids, the biosynthesis of the nucleotide sugar GDP-Fuc has been shown to be essential in

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceCloning, MolecularFucosyltransferasesGalactoside 2-alpha-L-fucosyltransferaseGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicHumansMitochondriaPhylogenyTrypanosoma brucei bruceiFucosyltransferasesGalactoside 2-alpha-L-fucosyltransferasebiochemistrychemical biologyfucosyltranferaseglycobiologyinfectious diseasekinetoplastidmicrobiologymitochondriaTrypanosoma

Identifiers

PMID34410224
PMCPMC8439653
OpenAlexW3194836938

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Registered trials

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