Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18063004›Full record

ReviewVirology2008

Mechanisms for enveloped virus budding: can some viruses do without an ESCRT?

Benjamin J Chen, Robert A Lamb

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In one paragraph

Review in Virology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 183 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
183citing papers in PubMed
21.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

183 citing papers in PubMed, 281 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The Role of Cholesterol in M2 Clustering and Viral Budding Explained.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  8. Exosome-Autophagy Crosstalk in Enveloped Virus Infection.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  19. The Role of Exosome and the ESCRT Pathway on Enveloped Virus Infection.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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123 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Benjamin J ChenDepartment of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3500, USA.
Robert A Lamb
Northwestern University · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008152 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ARDEHALI, HOSSEIN · 1987 to 2021
$24.0M
STRUCTURE &EXPRESSION OF THE PARAMYXOVIRUS SV5 GENOMER01AI023173 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI LAMB, ROBERT A · 1986 to 2010
$3.1M
The Structure and Function of the Influenza Virus GenomeR01AI020201 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI LAMB, ROBERT A · 1985 to 2016
$2.8M
STRUCTURE/FUNCTION OF THE INFLUENZA VIRUS GENOMER37AI020201 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI LAMB, ROBERT A · 1987 to 2006
$1.8M
The Structure and Function of the Influenza Virus GenomeR56AI020201 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI LAMB, ROBERT A · 2011 to 2011
$369k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIAID NIH HHS AI-20201NIAID NIH HHS AI-23173NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI020201NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI023173NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI020201NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI020201NIGMS NIH HHS GM-08152NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008152
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many enveloped viruses complete their replication cycle by forming vesicles that bud from the plasma membrane. Some viruses encode "late" (L) domain motifs that are able to hijack host proteins involved in the vacuolar protein sorting (VPS) pathway, a cellular budding process that gives rise to multivesicular bodies and that is topologically equivalent to virus budding. Although many enveloped viruses share this mechanism, examples of viruses that require additional viral factors and viruses that appear to be independent of the VPS pathway have been identified. Alternative mechanisms for virus budding could involve other topologically similar process such as cell abscission, which occurs following cytokinesis, or virus budding could proceed spontaneously as a result of lipid microdomain accumulation of viral proteins. Further examination of novel virus-host protein interactions and characterization of other enveloped viruses for which budding requirements are currently unknown will lead to a better understanding of the cellular processes involved in virus assembly and budding.

Indexed as

Protein TransportViral Envelope ProteinsVirus AssemblyVirusesVirus ReplicationViral Envelope Proteins

Identifiers

PMID18063004
PMCPMC2751282
OpenAlexW2071559289

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