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ReviewJournal of bacteriology2024

A bacterial sense of touch: T4P retraction motor as a means of surface sensing by

C J Geiger, G C L Wong, G A O'Toole

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Review in Journal of bacteriology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing 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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Distinct roles of PilI and ChpC inApplied and environmental microbiology · 2026
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  5. Structural modeling reveals the mechanism of motor ATPase coordination during type IV pilus retraction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. Separation ofmBio · 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

3 authors.

C J GeigerDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
G C L WongDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
G A O'TooleDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2861-4392

Funding

HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONST32AI007519 · NIAID · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI DEBORAH A HOGAN · 1997 to 2026
$5.9M
Cathelicidins in Skin ImmunityR01AI052453 · NIAID · VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FDN/SAN DIEGO · PI GALLO, RICHARD L, NIZET, VICTOR · 2002 to 2017
$5.3M
cdiGMP regulation of Biofilm FormationR37AI083256 · NIAID · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI O'TOOLE, GEORGE A. · 2014 to 2023
$4.7M
Cathelicidin in Skin ImmunityR37AI052453 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Richard L Gallo, Victor Nizet · 2019 to 2026
$4.6M
Surface sensing, memory, and motility control in biofilm formationR01AI143730 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI O'TOOLE, GEORGE A., WONG, GERARD C · 2019 to 2023
$2.0M
HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R37 AI052453, R01AI143730NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI052453NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI143730NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI052453NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI083256NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007519
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most microbial cells found in nature exist in matrix-covered, surface-attached communities known as biofilms. This mode of growth is initiated by the ability of the microbe to sense a surface on which to grow. The opportunistic pathogen

Indexed as

Fimbriae, BacterialPseudomonas aeruginosaBacterial ProteinsCyclic AMPGene Expression Regulation, BacterialBacterial ProteinsCyclic AMPbiofilmmotorPil-ChpPilTPseudomonas aeruginosasurface sensingtype 4 pili

Identifiers

PMID38832786
PMCPMC11270903

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Registered trials

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