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ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Current Status of Endolysin-Based Treatments against Gram-Negative Bacteria.

Marco Túlio Pardini Gontijo, Genesy Perez Jorge, Marcelo Brocchi

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Review in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
43citing papers in PubMed
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Endolysins as Effective Agents for DecontaminatingInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marco Túlio Pardini GontijoDepartamento de Genética, Evolução, Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, Campinas 13083-862, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-6605-3402
Genesy Perez JorgeDepartamento de Genética, Evolução, Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, Campinas 13083-862, Brazil.
Marcelo BrocchiDepartamento de Genética, Evolução, Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, Campinas 13083-862, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) · BR

Funding

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 130553/2020-4Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 309380/2019-7Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS) 2016/772Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 2017/10051-2Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 2020/01535-9
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevalence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria is a public health concern. Bacteriophages and bacteriophage-derived lytic enzymes have been studied in response to the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria. The availability of tRNAs and endolysin toxicity during recombinant protein expression is circumvented by codon optimization and lower expression levels using inducible pET-type plasmids and controlled cultivation conditions, respectively. The use of polyhistidine tags facilitates endolysin purification and alters antimicrobial activity. Outer membrane permeabilizers, such as organic acids, act synergistically with endolysins, but some endolysins permeate the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria

Indexed as

antibiotic substitutebactericidal activitybacteriophagebiocontrolenzybioticnosocomial pathogenpeptide tag

Identifiers

PMID34680724
PMCPMC8532960
OpenAlexW3201434055

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Registered trials

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