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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2025

Resistance and germination of spores of

Shermeen Khan, James Wicander, George Korza, Rebecca Caldbeck, Ann E Cowan, Graham Christie, Peter Setlow

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Effects of levels of purity of spores of twoApplied and environmental microbiology · 2026
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  5. Germination ofJournal of bacteriology · 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

7 authors.

Shermeen KhanDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
James WicanderDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
George KorzaDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Rebecca CaldbeckDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Ann E CowanDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
Graham ChristieDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7177-9646
Peter SetlowDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3119-2669

Funding

Mechanistic Modeling of Cellular SystemsR24GM137787 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI Pedro Mendes, Ion I. Moraru · 2020 to 2026
$8.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R24 GM137787
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spores of

Indexed as

BacillusBacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsMembrane ProteinsSpores, BacterialGene Expression Regulation, BacterialHot TemperatureBacterial ProteinsMembrane ProteinsBacillus megateriumBacillus subtilismembrane fluidityspore germinationspore resistancespores

Identifiers

PMID40938645
PMCPMC12548441

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