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ReviewInfection and immunity2023

Sound the (Smaller) Alarm: The Triphosphate Magic Spot Nucleotide pGpp.

Areej Malik, Megan A Hept, Erin B Purcell

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Review in Infection and immunity, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

7 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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Areej MalikOld Dominion University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
Megan A HeptOld Dominion University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
Erin B PurcellOld Dominion University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8736-0433
Old Dominion University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has recently become evident that the bacterial stringent response is regulated by a triphosphate alarmone (pGpp) as well as the canonical tetra- and pentaphosphate alarmones ppGpp and pppGpp [together, (p)ppGpp]. Often dismissed in the past as an artifact or degradation product, pGpp has been confirmed as a deliberate endpoint of multiple synthetic pathways utilizing GMP, (p)ppGpp, or GDP/GTP as precursors. Some early studies concluded that pGpp functionally mimics (p)ppGpp and that its biological role is to make alarmone metabolism less dependent on the guanine energy charge of the cell by allowing GMP-dependent synthesis to continue when GDP/GTP has been depleted. However, recent reports that pGpp binds unique potential protein receptors and is the only alarmone synthesized by the intestinal pathogen Clostridioides difficile indicate that pGpp is more than a stand-in for the longer alarmones and plays a distinct biological role beyond its functional overlap (p)ppGpp.

Indexed as

Guanosine PentaphosphateNucleotidesBacterial ProteinsGuanosine TetraphosphateGuanosine TriphosphatePolyphosphatesBacterial ProteinsGuanosine PentaphosphateGuanosine TetraphosphateGuanosine TriphosphateNucleotidesPolyphosphatestriphosphoric acidalarmonebacterial nucleotide signalingpGpp(p)ppGppstringent response

Identifiers

PMID36920208
PMCPMC10112252
OpenAlexW4324311596

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