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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2022

Polysaccharide metabolism regulates structural colour in bacterial colonies.

Gea T van de Kerkhof, Lukas Schertel, Laura Catòn, Thomas G Parton, Karin H Müller, Heather F Greer, Colin J Ingham, Silvia Vignolini

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Deletion of theeLife · 2026
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  3. Structural color in the bacterial domain: The ecogenomics of a 2-dimensional optical phenotype.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gea T van de KerkhofDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2427-2740
Lukas SchertelDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0977-0389
Laura CatònDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2905-3045
Thomas G PartonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7153-1042
Karin H MüllerCambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4693-8558
Heather F GreerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6149-1964
Colin J InghamHoekmine BV, Room 1.091 (iLab), Kenniscentrum Technologie en Innovatie, Hogeschool Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 7, 3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1508-019X
Silvia VignoliniDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0664-1418
University of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Applied Sciences Utrecht · NL

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/K014617/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/V00364X/1European Research Council 101001637
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The brightest colours in nature often originate from the interaction of light with materials structured at the nanoscale. Different organisms produce such coloration with a wide variety of materials and architectures. In the case of bacterial colonies, structural colours stem for the periodic organization of the cells within the colony, and while considerable efforts have been spent on elucidating the mechanisms responsible for such coloration, the biochemical processes determining the development of this effect have not been explored. Here, we study the influence of nutrients on the organization of cells from the structurally coloured bacteria

Indexed as

BacteriaPolysaccharidesColorPolysaccharidesbiochemical pathwayfucoidanmetabolismpolysaccharidesregulationstructurally coloured bacteria

Identifiers

PMID35611622
PMCPMC9131120
OpenAlexW4281492408

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