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ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2021

Central role of metabolism in Trypanosoma cruzi tropism and Chagas disease pathogenesis.

Zongyuan Liu, Rebecca Ulrich vonBargen, Laura-Isobel McCall

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Review in Current opinion in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Biological and Molecular Characterization of FiveTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Article
  7. Single cell metabolism: current and future trends.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2022
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Chemical Cartography Approaches to Study Trypanosomatid Infection.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2022
    Article
  10. Mitochondria as a Cellular Hub in Infection and Inflammation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
    Review
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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zongyuan LiuDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, United States; Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, United States.
Rebecca Ulrich vonBargenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, United States.
Laura-Isobel McCallDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, United States; Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, United States; Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, United States. Electronic address: lmccall@ou.edu.
University of Oklahoma · US

Funding

UC San Diego RAPID Faculty Development Program in Infectious DiseasesR25AI147376 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ADRIANA H TREMOULET, Joann Trejo · 2020 to 2026
$2.5M
Small molecule biomarkers of cardiac Chagas disease progressionR21AI156669 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA · PI BOWMAN, NATALIE MCCARTER, GILMAN, ROBERT H · 2021 to 2022
$458k
Oral carnitine administration as a novel treatment for chronic-stage Chagas diseaseR21AI148886 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA · PI MCCALL, LAURA-ISOBEL · 2020 to 2021
$426k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI148886NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI156669NIAID NIH HHS R25 AI147376
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi parasites. During mammalian infection, T. cruzi alternates between an intracellular stage and extracellular stage. T. cruzi adapts its metabolism to this lifestyle, while also reshaping host metabolic pathways. Such host metabolic adaptations compensate for parasite-induced stress, but may promote parasite survival and proliferation. Recent work has demonstrated that metabolism controls parasite tropism and location of Chagas disease symptoms, and regulates whether infection is mild or severe. Such findings have important translational applications with regards to treatment and diagnostic test development, though further research is needed with regards to in vivo parasite metabolic gene expression, relationship between magnitude of local metabolic perturbation, parasite strain and disease location, and host-parasite-microbiota co-metabolism.

Indexed as

Chagas DiseaseTrypanosoma cruziAnimalsMetabolic Networks and PathwaysProteomicsTropism

Identifiers

PMID34455304
PMCPMC8463485
OpenAlexW3198673402

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