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ArticlemBio2022

ABCDs of the Relative Contributions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing Systems to Virulence in Diverse Nonvertebrate Hosts.

Alejandro Vasquez-Rifo, Jamie Cook, Deborah L McEwan, Dania Shikara, Frederick M Ausubel, Francesca Di Cara, Zhenyu Cheng

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Article in mBio, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 43% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alejandro Vasquez-RifoProgram in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Jamie CookDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie Universitygrid.55602.34, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Deborah L McEwanDepartment of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospitalgrid.32224.35, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Dania ShikaraDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie Universitygrid.55602.34, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Frederick M AusubelDepartment of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospitalgrid.32224.35, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Francesca Di CaraDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie Universitygrid.55602.34, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Zhenyu ChengDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie Universitygrid.55602.34, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7240-9126
Dalhousie University · CAHarvard University · USUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

Identifying novel anti-infectives by high through-put screening in whole animalsR01AI085581 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI AUSUBEL, FREDERICK M · 2009 to 2013
$4.7M
C. elegans immune defense against the P. aeruginosa toxin Exotoxin AF32AI098307 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MCEWAN, DEBORAH LYN · 2013 to 2015
$165k
Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) RGPIN/04083-2019Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) RGPIN/04912-2016NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI098307NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI085581
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen that exhibits pathogenicity in an unusually broad range of plants and animals, and it is of interest to study the roles of particular virulence-related factors in diverse hosts. The production of many P. aeruginosa virulence factors is under the control of a quorum sensing (QS) signaling network, which has three interconnected branches that engage in intricate cross talk: Las, Rhl, and MvfR. Because there has been no systematic comparison of the roles of the three QS systems in mediating P. aeruginosa virulence in various hosts, we compared the virulence of wild-type (WT) P. aeruginosa PA14 and a set of isogenic PA14 QS in-frame deletion mutants in four selected hosts, the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), the crop plant Brassica napus (canola), the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The first letters of the selected host genera, A, B, C, and D, inspired the title of this article and indicate that this work lays the groundwork for future elucidation of the specific roles of each QS branch in mediating virulence in diverse hosts.

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Pseudomonas aeruginosaQuorum SensingAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterVirulenceVirulence FactorsVirulence Factorsbroad host rangeopportunistic pathogenPseudomonas aeruginosaquorum sensing

Identifiers

PMID35311532
PMCPMC9040828
OpenAlexW4220708188

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