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ArticleJournal of virology2008

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus nsp1 suppresses host gene expression, including that of type I interferon, in infected cells.

Krishna Narayanan, Cheng Huang, Kumari Lokugamage, Wataru Kamitani, Tetsuro Ikegami, Chien-Te K Tseng, Shinji Makino

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Article in Journal of virology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 313 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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313citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

313 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 462 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Brazilian Society of Cardiology Guideline on Myocarditis - 2022.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2022
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  2. [Pulmonary innate immune response in Sars-cov-2 infection]Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) · 2022
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  3. Epidemiology and Etiopathogeny of COVID-19.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021
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  6. SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV disrupt host protein synthesis via nsp1 with differential effects on the integrated stress response.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  15. Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025
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  18. SARS-CoV2 Nsp1 is a metal-dependent DNA and RNA endonuclease.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Krishna NarayananDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555-1019, USA. shmakino@utmb.edu
Cheng Huang
Kumari Lokugamage
Wataru Kamitani
Tetsuro Ikegami
Chien-Te K Tseng
Shinji Makino
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

MOLECULAR STUDIES OF CORONAVIRUS REPLICATIONR01AI029984 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI MAKINO, SHINJI · 1990 to 2006
$1.5M
Analysis of SARS Coronavirus-Host Cell InteractionsR01AI072493 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI MAKINO, SHINJI · 2007 to 2011
$1.5M
Molecular Studies of Coronavirus ReplicationR21AI029984 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI MAKINO, SHINJI · 2001 to 2001
$261k
NIAID NIH HHS AI29984NIAID NIH HHS AI72493NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI029984NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI072493NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI029984
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) nsp1 protein has unique biological functions that have not been described in the viral proteins of any RNA viruses; expressed SARS-CoV nsp1 protein has been found to suppress host gene expression by promoting host mRNA degradation and inhibiting translation. We generated an nsp1 mutant (nsp1-mt) that neither promoted host mRNA degradation nor suppressed host protein synthesis in expressing cells. Both a SARS-CoV mutant virus, encoding the nsp1-mt protein (SARS-CoV-mt), and a wild-type virus (SARS-CoV-WT) replicated efficiently and exhibited similar one-step growth kinetics in susceptible cells. Both viruses accumulated similar amounts of virus-specific mRNAs and nsp1 protein in infected cells, whereas the amounts of endogenous host mRNAs were clearly higher in SARS-CoV-mt-infected cells than in SARS-CoV-WT-infected cells, in both the presence and absence of actinomycin D. Further, SARS-CoV-WT replication strongly inhibited host protein synthesis, whereas host protein synthesis inhibition in SARS-CoV-mt-infected cells was not as efficient as in SARS-CoV-WT-infected cells. These data revealed that nsp1 indeed promoted host mRNA degradation and contributed to host protein translation inhibition in infected cells. Notably, SARS-CoV-mt infection, but not SARS-CoV-WT infection, induced high levels of beta interferon (IFN) mRNA accumulation and high titers of type I IFN production. These data demonstrated that SARS-CoV nsp1 suppressed host innate immune functions, including type I IFN expression, in infected cells and suggested that SARS-CoV nsp1 most probably plays a critical role in SARS-CoV virulence.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationCell LineHumansInterferon Type IMutationProtein BiosynthesisRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, MessengerRNA StabilitySevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusViral Nonstructural ProteinsInterferon Type INsp1 protein, SARS coronavirusRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, MessengerViral Nonstructural Proteins

Identifiers

PMID18305050
PMCPMC2293030
OpenAlexW2156095183

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