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ArticleCommunications biology2023

Structural insights into MIC2 recognition by MIC2-associated protein in Toxoplasma gondii.

Su Zhang, Fangfang Wang, Dujuan Zhang, Dongsheng Liu, Wei Ding, Timothy A Springer, Gaojie Song

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Su Zhang *Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Genome Editing and Cell Therapy, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, 200241, Shanghai, China.
Fangfang Wang *Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Genome Editing and Cell Therapy, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, 200241, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6095-5237
Dujuan Zhang *Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Genome Editing and Cell Therapy, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, 200241, Shanghai, China.
Dongsheng LiuiHuman Institute, ShanghaiTech University, 201210, Shanghai, China.
Wei DingBeijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4368-8215
Timothy A SpringerProgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, and Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6627-2904
Gaojie SongShanghai Frontiers Science Center of Genome Editing and Cell Therapy, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, 200241, Shanghai, China. gjsong@bio.ecnu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7787-6452
East China Normal University · CNBoston Children's Hospital · USChinese Academy of Sciences · CNShanghaiTech University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microneme protein 2 (MIC2) and MIC2-associated protein (M2AP) play crucial roles in the gliding motility and host cell invasion of Toxoplasma gondii. Complex formation between MIC2 and M2AP is required for maturation and transport from the microneme to the parasite surface. Previous studies showed that M2AP associates with the 6

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PMID37652989
PMCPMC10471735
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