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ArticleNature2024

The structure and physical properties of a packaged bacteriophage particle.

Kush Coshic, Christopher Maffeo, David Winogradoff, Aleksei Aksimentiev

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
14.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Mysteries of adenovirus packaging.Journal of virology · 2025
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  18. Cryo-EM structure of cyanopodophage A4 reveals a pentameric pre-ejectosome in the double-stabilized capsid.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kush CoshicCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7179-4624
Christopher MaffeoBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9927-1502
David WinogradoffDepartment of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Aleksei AksimentievCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. aksiment@illinois.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6042-8442
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

Multi-resolution Approaches to Modeling the 3D Structure, Delivery, and Replication of Viral GenomesR01GM137015 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI AKSIMENTIEV, ALEKSEI · 2020 to 2023
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM137015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A string of nucleotides confined within a protein capsid contains all the instructions necessary to make a functional virus particle, a virion. Although the structure of the protein capsid is known for many virus species

Indexed as

BacteriophagesCapsidDNA, ViralGenome, ViralVirionVirus AssemblyCapsid ProteinsDiffusionIonsStatic ElectricityWaterCapsid ProteinsDNA, ViralIonsWater

Identifiers

PMID38448589
PMCPMC11196859
OpenAlexW4392504719

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Registered trials

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