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ArticleMolecular microbiology2022

Contributions of F-specific subunits to the F plasmid-encoded type IV secretion system and F pilus.

Kouhei Kishida, Rachel E Bosserman, Laith Harb, Pratick Khara, Liqiang Song, Bo Hu, Lanying Zeng, Peter J Christie

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Article in Molecular microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Type IV Secretion System Drives Lipid Mixing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. Conjugative delivery of toxin genesJournal of bacteriology · 2025
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  13. Illuminating type IV secretion-mediated DNA trafficking through long filaments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  15. The F pilus serves as a conduit for the DNA during conjugation between physically distant bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  17. Ligand-DisplayingbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kouhei KishidaDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA.
Rachel E BossermanDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA.
Laith HarbDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Pratick KharaDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA.
Liqiang SongDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA.
Bo HuDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA.
Lanying ZengDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8074-5824
Peter J ChristieDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9799-7067
The University of Texas Health Science Center · USTexas A&M University System · US

Funding

TRANSLOCATION OF DNA ACROSS THE AGROBACTERIUM ENVELOPER01GM048746 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI CHRISTIE, PETER J. · 1998 to 2018
$6.9M
Biological And Structural Diversity Of Bacterial Type IV Secretion SystemsR35GM131892 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI PETER j. CHRISTIE · 2019 to 2026
$3.8M
In Situ Architecture of Specialized Bacterial Secretion SystemsR35GM138301 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI HU, BO · 2020 to 2024
$2.0M
Structure analysis of F pilus biogenesisR21AI142378 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI HU, BO · 2019 to 2020
$424k
Reducing Virulence Through the Suppression of Retractile PiliR21AI156846 · NIAID · TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH · PI ZENG, LANYING, ZHANG, JUNJIE · 2021 to 2022
$395k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI142378NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI156846NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM048746NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131892NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138301
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

F plasmids circulate widely among the Enterobacteriaceae through encoded type IV secretion systems (T4SS

Indexed as

Escherichia coli ProteinsF FactorBacterial ProteinsConjugation, GeneticEscherichia coliFimbriae, BacterialPlasmidsType IV Secretion SystemsBacterial ProteinsEscherichia coli ProteinstraW protein, E coliType IV Secretion Systemsconjugative piluscryoelectron tomographyDNA conjugationfluorescence microscopyhorizontal gene transfer

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PMID35434837
PMCPMC9359479
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