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ArticleJournal of virology2005

New genes from old: redeployment of dUTPase by herpesviruses.

Andrew J Davison, Nigel D Stow

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Article in Journal of virology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Is dUTPase Enzymatic Activity Truly Essential for Viability?International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  5. Crystal structure of the tegument protein UL82 (pp71) from human cytomegalovirus.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2024
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  11. Expanding the Known Functional Repertoire of the Human Cytomegalovirus pp71 Protein.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020
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  19. Immune control of oncogenic γ-herpesviruses.Current opinion in virology · 2015
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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.

Andrew J DavisonMRC Virology Unit, Institute of Virology, University of Glasgow, UK. a.davison@vir.gla.ac.uk
Nigel D Stow
University of Glasgow · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Published work (D. J. McGeoch, Nucleic Acids Res. 18:4105-4110, 1990; J. E. McGeehan, N. W. Depledge, and D. J. McGeoch, Curr. Protein Peptide Sci. 2:325-333, 2001) has indicated that evolution of dUTPase in the class of herpesviruses that infect mammals and birds involved capture of a host gene followed by a duplication event that resulted in a coding region comprising two fused dUTPase domains. Some of the conserved residues required for enzyme activity were then lost, resulting in a dUTPase containing a single active site with different elements contributed by each half of the protein. Further conserved residues were lost in one subfamily (the Betaherpesvirinae), yielding a protein that is related to herpesvirus dUTPases but has a different and as yet unrecognized function. Evidence from sequence similarities and structural predictions now indicates that several additional genes were derived from the herpesvirus dUTPase gene, probably by duplication. These are UL31, UL82, UL83, and UL84 in human cytomegalovirus (and counterparts in other members of the Betaherpesvirinae) and ORF10 and ORF11 in human herpesvirus 8 (and counterparts in other members of the Gammaherpesvirinae). The findings clarify the evolutionary history of these genes and provide novel insights for structural and functional studies.

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularGenes, ViralAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsComputer-Aided DesignCytomegalovirusHerpesviridaeHerpesvirus 1, HumanHerpesvirus 8, HumanHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyPyrophosphatasesSequence AlignmentdUTP pyrophosphatasePyrophosphatasesViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID16188990
PMCPMC1235826
OpenAlexW2161733401

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