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ArticleiScience2023

Cell wall damage increases macromolecular crowding effects in the

Theodoros Pittas, Weiyan Zuo, Arnold J Boersma

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Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Macromolecular Crowding in Cell Stress and Death.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2025
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  6. Crowding and in-Cell Crystallization.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Theodoros PittasDWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, 52074 Aachen, NRW, Germany.
Weiyan ZuoDWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, 52074 Aachen, NRW, Germany.
Arnold J BoersmaDWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstrasse 50, 52074 Aachen, NRW, Germany.
DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials · DERWTH Aachen University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intracellular milieu is crowded with biomacromolecules. Macromolecular crowding changes the interactions, diffusion, and conformations of biomacromolecules. Changes in intracellular crowding have been mostly ascribed to differences in biomacromolecule concentration. However, spatial organization of these molecules should play a significant role in crowding effects. Here, we find that cell wall damage causes increased crowding effects in the

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BiochemistryBiological sciencesCell biologyMacromoleculesMicrobiology

Identifiers

PMID37009215
PMCPMC10064245
OpenAlexW4323664386

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