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ReviewApplied microbiology and biotechnology2005

Inhibitors of virus replication: recent developments and prospects.

Julia Magden, Leevi Kääriäinen, Tero Ahola

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Review in Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Synthetic and medicinal perspective of quinolines as antiviral agents.European journal of medicinal chemistry · 2021
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  17. The find of COVID-19 vaccine: Challenges and opportunities.Journal of infection and public health · 2021
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  19. The Functional Deubiquitinating Enzymes in Control of Innate Antiviral Immunity.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Julia MagdenInstitute of Biotechnology, PO Box 56 (Viikinkaari 9), 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Leevi Kääriäinen
Tero Ahola
University of Helsinki · FICzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology · CZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The search for inhibitors of viral replication is dependent on understanding the events taking place at the molecular level during viral infection. All the essential steps during the viral life cycle are potential targets for antiviral drugs. Classical inhibitors of herpesvirus replication cause chain termination during viral DNA replication. Similarly, the HIV reverse transcriptase is the major target of anti-HIV compounds. The broad-spectrum antiviral agent ribavirin affects viral nucleic acid replication by multiple mechanisms. Another major enzyme encoded by many viruses is a protease responsible for the processing of virus-encoded polyproteins. The HIV protease has been very successfully targeted, and hepatitis C virus and rhinovirus protease inhibitors are being actively developed. The complex series of interactions during virus entry is a rapidly emerging and promising target for inhibitors of HIV and many other viruses. New anti-influenza drugs inhibit virus release from infected cells. Several stages of the viral life cycle remain incompletely characterized and are therefore poorly exploited in antiviral strategies. These include, among others, the RNA capping reactions catalyzed by many viruses, as well as the membrane association of replication complexes which is common to all positive-strand RNA viruses.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsDNA ReplicationHIV Fusion InhibitorsHumansPeptide HydrolasesProtease InhibitorsReverse Transcriptase InhibitorsRNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseVirus DiseasesVirusesVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsHIV Fusion InhibitorsPeptide HydrolasesProtease InhibitorsReverse Transcriptase InhibitorsRNA-Directed DNA Polymerase

Identifiers

PMID15592828
PMCPMC7082807
OpenAlexW2088439570

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