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ArticleACS chemical biology2021

Systematic Assessment of Accessibility to the Surface of

Noel J Ferraro, Seonghoon Kim, Wonpil Im, Marcos M Pires

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Article in ACS chemical biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 23 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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Noel J FerraroDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States.
Seonghoon KimSchool of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0050-1054
Wonpil ImDepartments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Bioengineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5642-6041
Marcos M PiresDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5676-0725
University of Virginia · USKorea Institute for Advanced Study · KRLehigh University · US

Funding

Unraveling Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Sensing via Synthetic AnalogsR35GM124893 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI Marcos M. Pires · 2017 to 2026
$3.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124893
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteins from bacterial foes, antimicrobial peptides, and host immune proteins must navigate past a dense layer of bacterial surface biomacromolecules to reach the peptidoglycan (PG) layer of Gram-positive bacteria. A subclass of molecules (e.g., antibiotics with intracellular targets) also must permeate through the PG (in a molecular sieving manner) to reach the cytoplasmic membrane. Despite the biological and therapeutic importance of surface accessibility, systematic analyses in live bacterial cells have been lacking. We describe a live cell fluorescence assay that is robust, shows a high level of reproducibility, and reports on the permeability of molecules to and within the PG scaffold. Moreover, our study shows that teichoic acids impede the permeability of molecules of a wide range of sizes and chemical composition.

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Antimicrobial PeptidesFluorescenceReproducibility of ResultsStaphylococcus aureusSurface PropertiesAntimicrobial Peptides

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PMID34609132
PMCPMC9272369
OpenAlexW3204384333

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