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ArticleeLife2021

A Tad-like apparatus is required for contact-dependent prey killing in predatory social bacteria.

Sofiene Seef, Julien Herrou, Paul de Boissier, Laetitia My, Gael Brasseur, Donovan Robert, Rikesh Jain, Romain Mercier, Eric Cascales, Bianca H Habermann and 1 more

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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 55 papers.

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55citing papers in PubMed
25.0field-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

55 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Sofiene Seef *Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
Julien Herrou *Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8585-8043
Paul de BoissierAix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7288, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
Laetitia MyAix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7876-1809
Gael BrasseurAix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
Donovan RobertAix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
Rikesh JainAix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
Romain MercierAix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.
Eric CascalesAix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7255, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0611-9179
Bianca H HabermannAix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7288, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-2457-7504
Tâm MignotAix-Marseille Université - CNRS UMR 7283, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée and Turing Center for Living Systems, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0003-4338-9063
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Soil MicrobiologyBacterial ProteinsEscherichia coliFimbriae, BacterialMicrobial ViabilityMovementMyxococcus xanthusSingle-Cell AnalysisTime FactorsBacterial Proteinsinfectious diseasemicrobiologymotilityMyxococcus xanthuspredationtad pilus

Identifiers

PMID34505573
PMCPMC8460266
OpenAlexW3198307643

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