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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

FtsA acts through FtsW to promote cell wall synthesis during cell division in

Kyung-Tae Park, Sebastien Pichoff, Shishen Du, Joe Lutkenhaus

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kyung-Tae ParkDepartment of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66106.ORCID 0000-0002-4327-4891
Sebastien PichoffDepartment of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66106.ORCID 0000-0001-8827-2606
Shishen DuDepartment of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9809-8653
Joe LutkenhausDepartment of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66106; jlutkenh@kumc.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8228-2114
University of Kansas Medical Center · USWuhan University · CN

Funding

REGULATION OF CELL DIVISIONR37GM029764 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI LUTKENHAUS, JOSEPH F · 2000 to 2010
$4.8M
REGULATION OF EXPRESSION OF CELL DIVISION GENESR01GM029764 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI LUTKENHAUS, JOSEPH F · 1985 to 2022
$4.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM029764NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM029764
6 · The paper itself

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Cell DivisionCytokinesisBacterial ProteinsCell WallEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsMembrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsEscherichia coli ProteinsFtsA protein, E coliFtsW protein, BacteriaMembrane ProteinscytokinesisFtsAFtsQFtsWseptal PG

Identifiers

PMID34453005
PMCPMC8536321
OpenAlexW3193734521

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