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ArticleCell discovery2025

The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein.

Sherihan Samir, Sofía Doello, Andreas M Enkerlin, Erik Zimmer, Michael Haffner, Teresa Müller, Lisa Dengler, Stilianos P Lambidis, Shamphavi Sivabalasarma, Sonja-Verena Albers and 1 more

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Article in Cell discovery, 2025. 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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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Functional and structural insights into cyanobacterial COThe Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026
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  4. ComFB, a widespread family of c-di-NMP receptor proteins.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. c-di-GMP-Dependent Regulation of Motility bybioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  7. ComFB, a new widespread family of c-di-NMP receptor proteins.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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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

11 authors.

Sherihan Samir *Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections - CMFI", Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany.
Sofía Doello *Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections - CMFI", Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4025-3016
Andreas M EnkerlinMicrobial Biochemistry Group, Institute of Phototrophic Microbiology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Erik ZimmerInterfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections - CMFI", Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-9366-5283
Michael HaffnerInterfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections - CMFI", Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany.
Teresa MüllerInterfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections - CMFI", Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-4793-4381
Lisa DenglerInterfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections - CMFI", Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany.
Stilianos P LambidisInterfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections - CMFI", Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany.
Shamphavi SivabalasarmaMolecular Biology of Archaea, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.
Sonja-Verena AlbersMolecular Biology of Archaea, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.
Khaled A SelimInterfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections - CMFI", Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany. khaled.selim@uni-duesseldorf.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2974-9483

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40745163
PMCPMC12313861

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