Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16188998›Full record

ArticleJournal of virology2005

Cleavage of human cytomegalovirus protease pUL80a at internal and cryptic sites is not essential but enhances infectivity.

Amy N Loveland, Chee-Kai Chan, Edward J Brignole, Wade Gibson

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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 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amy N LovelandVirology Laboratories, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Chee-Kai Chan
Edward J Brignole
Wade Gibson
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

HERPESVIRUS PROTEIN SYNTHESIS &VIRION ASSEMBLYR01AI013718 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GIBSON, D. WADE · 1985 to 2005
$2.1M
HERPESVIRUS PROTEINASE--TARGET FOR ANTIVIRAL THERAPYR01AI032957 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GIBSON, D. WADE · 1992 to 2007
$1.7M
Herpesvirus Protein Synthesis And Virion AssemblyR56AI013718 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GIBSON, D WADE · 2008 to 2008
$410k
NIAID NIH HHS AI032957NIAID NIH HHS AI13718NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI013718NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI032957NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI013718
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cytomegalovirus (CMV) maturational protease, assemblin, contains an "internal" (I) cleavage site absent from its homologs in other herpesviruses. Blocking this site for cleavage did not prevent replication of the resulting I(-) mutant virus. However, cells infected with the I(-) virus showed increased amounts of a fragment produced by cleavage at the nearby "cryptic" (C) site, suggesting that its replication may bypass the I-site block by using the C site as an alternate cleavage pathway. To test this and further examine the biological importance of these cleavages, we constructed two additional virus mutants-one blocked for C-site cleavage and another blocked for both I- and C-site cleavage. Infectivity comparisons with the parental wild-type virus showed that the I(-) mutant was the least affected for virus production, whereas infectivity of the C(-) mutant was reduced by approximately 40% and when both sites were blocked virus infectivity was reduced by nearly 90%, providing the first evidence that these cleavages have biological significance. We also present and discuss evidence suggesting that I-site cleavage destabilizes assemblin and its fragments, whereas C-site cleavage does not.

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Cell LineCytomegalovirusHumansSerine EndopeptidasesVirus ReplicationassemblinSerine Endopeptidases

Identifiers

PMID16188998
PMCPMC1235863
OpenAlexW2007471668

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