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ArticleScientific reports2023

Chitin degradation by Synechococcus WH7803.

Giovanna Capovilla, Kurt G Castro, Silvio Collani, Sean M Kearney, David M Kehoe, Sallie W Chisholm

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Giovanna CapovillaDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. gio.capovilla@gmail.com.
Kurt G CastroDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Silvio CollaniDepartment of Fysiologisk Botanik, Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Sean M KearneyDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David M KehoeDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Sallie W ChisholmDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. chisholm@mit.edu.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USIndiana University Bloomington · USUmeå Plant Science Centre · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chitin is an abundant, carbon-rich polymer in the marine environment. Chitinase activity has been detected in spent media of Synechococcus WH7803 cultures-yet it was unclear which specific enzymes were involved. Here we delivered a CRISPR tool into the cells via electroporation to generate loss-of-function mutants of putative candidates and identified ChiA as the enzyme required for the activity detected in the wild type.

Indexed as

ChitinasesSynechococcusChitinChitinChitinases

Identifiers

PMID37968300
PMCPMC10651935
OpenAlexW4388700777

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