Evidence map›Paper›PMID 8112854›Full record

ArticleInfection and immunity1994

Structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 88, a protein related to the Escherichia coli PstA periplasmic phosphate permease subunit.

M Braibant, L De Wit, P Peirs, M Kalai, J Ooms, A Drowart, K Huygen, J Content

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Infection and immunity, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
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

8 authors.

M BraibantDepartment of Virology, Institut Pasteur du Brabant, Brussels, Belgium.
L De Wit
P Peirs
M Kalai
J Ooms
A Drowart
K Huygen
J Content

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the cloning and sequencing of the gene coding for antigen 88 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis by using monoclonal antibodies to screen an expression library in lambda gt11. The gene encodes a 403-amino-acid-residue protein with a calculated molecular mass of 43,790 Da which contains seven putative transmembrane alpha-helical domains and presents a significant homology to the PstA protein of Escherichia coli. In its N-terminal region, it contains a 61-amino-acid region highly homologous to the fifth transmembrane helix of E. coli PstC. PstA and PstC are the two hydrophobic subunits of an E. coli periplasmic phosphate permease. Since the phosphate-binding subunit of this putative permease in M. tuberculosis has previously been characterized, i.e., the 38-kDa mycobacterial protein (also called protein antigen b, Ag 5, and Ag 78) homologous to PstS of E. coli, it seems likely that functional permeases analogous to the periplasmic permeases of gram-negative bacteria also exist in mycobacteria.

Indexed as

ATP-Binding Cassette TransportersBacterial ProteinsEscherichia coli ProteinsPhosphate Transport ProteinsAmino Acid SequenceAntibodies, MonoclonalAntigens, BacterialBase SequenceBlotting, SouthernCarrier ProteinsCloning, MolecularDNAMembrane Transport ProteinsMolecular Sequence DataMycobacterium tuberculosisAntibodies, MonoclonalAntigens, BacterialATP-Binding Cassette TransportersBacterial ProteinsCarrier ProteinsDNAEscherichia coli ProteinsMembrane Transport Proteinsphosphate permeasephosphate-specific transport protein A, bacteriaPhosphate Transport ProteinsPstA protein, E coli

Identifiers

PMID8112854
PMCPMC186192
OpenAlexW1891854163

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.