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ArticleNature2021

Structure of Geobacter pili reveals secretory rather than nanowire behaviour.

Yangqi Gu, Vishok Srikanth, Aldo I Salazar-Morales, Ruchi Jain, J Patrick O'Brien, Sophia M Yi, Rajesh Kumar Soni, Fadel A Samatey, Sibel Ebru Yalcin, Nikhil S Malvankar

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
73citing papers in PubMed
11.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

73 citing papers in PubMed, 172 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yangqi Gu *Microbial Sciences Institute Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8206-8804
Vishok Srikanth *Microbial Sciences Institute Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2498-4641
Aldo I Salazar-MoralesMicrobial Sciences Institute Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8126-9460
Ruchi JainMicrobial Sciences Institute Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA.
J Patrick O'BrienMicrobial Sciences Institute Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA.
Sophia M YiMicrobial Sciences Institute Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9219-9536
Rajesh Kumar SoniProteomics and Macromolecular Crystallography Shared Resource, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Fadel A SamateyMicrobial Sciences Institute Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA.
Sibel Ebru YalcinMicrobial Sciences Institute Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6041-5297
Nikhil S MalvankarMicrobial Sciences Institute Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA. nikhil.malvankar@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5611-6633
Yale University · USColumbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

Skill Development for Diverse Scientific Careers: A New Course Predoctoral Program in Cellular and Molecular BiologyT32GM007223 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BASERGA, SUSAN J · 1985 to 2019
$31.0M
Targeting bacterial infections by imaging electrical interactions between host surface pathogensDP2AI138259 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MALVANKAR, NIKHIL · 2017 to 2017
$2.5M
Convergent Graduate Training in Engineering, Physics and BiologyT32EB019941 · NIBIB · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI O'HERN, COREY · 2016 to 2020
$998k
NIAID NIH HHS DP2 AI138259NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB019941NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007223Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular electron transfer by Geobacter species through surface appendages known as microbial nanowires

Indexed as

GeobacterNanowiresBacterial ProteinsBiopolymersElectric ConductivityFimbriae, BacterialFimbriae ProteinsProtein MultimerizationBacterial ProteinsBiopolymersFimbriae Proteins

Identifiers

PMID34471289
PMCPMC9127704
OpenAlexW3198788043

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