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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2024

Regulation of heme biosynthesis via the coproporphyrin dependent pathway in bacteria.

Hadia Aftab, Rebecca K Donegan

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Use of Porphyrin Precursors as a Novel Approach for Detection ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  7. Rv3839-Rv3840 links the endogenous heme biosynthesis pathway withbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hadia AftabDepartment of Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY, United States.
Rebecca K DoneganDepartment of Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY, United States.
Barnard College · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heme biosynthesis in the Gram-positive bacteria occurs mostly via a pathway that is distinct from that of eukaryotes and Gram-negative bacteria in the three terminal heme synthesis steps. In many of these bacteria heme is a necessary cofactor that fulfills roles in respiration, gas sensing, and detoxification of reactive oxygen species. These varying roles for heme, the requirement of iron and glutamate, as glutamyl tRNA, for synthesis, and the sharing of intermediates with the synthesis of other porphyrin derivatives necessitates the need for many points of regulation in response to nutrient availability and metabolic state. In this review we examine the regulation of heme biosynthesis in these bacteria via heme, iron, and oxygen species. We also discuss our perspective on emerging roles of protein-protein interactions and post-translational modifications in regulating heme biosynthesis.

Indexed as

coproporphyrin dependent pathwayhemeheme biosynthesisheme synthesis regulationprokaryotic heme synthesis

Identifiers

PMID38577681
PMCPMC10991733
OpenAlexW4393052975

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