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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2008

The TORrid affairs of viruses: effects of mammalian DNA viruses on the PI3K-Akt-mTOR signalling pathway.

Nicholas J Buchkovich, Yongjun Yu, Carisa A Zampieri, James C Alwine

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 152 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
152citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
23.9field-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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

152 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 223 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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas J BuchkovichDepartment of Cancer Biology and Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, 314 Biomedical Research Building, 421 Curie Blvd, Philadelphia, 19104-6142 Pennsylvania, USA.
Yongjun Yu
Carisa A Zampieri
James C Alwine
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

REGULATION OF DNA TUMOR VIRUS GENE EXPRESSIONR01CA028379 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALWINE, JAMES C · 1985 to 2009
$4.5M
MECHANISMS OF POLYADENYLATION IN VIRAL SYSTEMSR01GM045773 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ALWINE, JAMES C · 1991 to 2008
$2.3M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA028379NCI NIH HHS R01 CA28379-27NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM045773NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM45773-16
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The successful replication of mammalian DNA viruses requires that they gain control of key cellular signalling pathways that affect broad aspects of cellular macromolecular synthesis, metabolism, growth and survival. The phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase-Akt-mammalian target of rapamycin (PI3K-Akt-mTOR) pathway is one such pathway. Mammalian DNA viruses have evolved various mechanisms to activate this pathway to obtain the benefits of Akt activation, including the maintenance of translation through the activation of mTOR. In addition, viruses must overcome the inhibition of this pathway that results from the activation of cellular stress responses during viral infection. This Review will discuss the range of mechanisms that mammalian DNA viruses use to activate this pathway, as well as the multiple mechanisms these viruses have evolved to circumvent inhibitory stress signalling.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsDNA, ViralDNA VirusesPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProtein KinasesProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesVirus ReplicationDNA, ViralPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProtein KinasesProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktTOR Serine-Threonine Kinases

Identifiers

PMID18311165
PMCPMC2597498
OpenAlexW2075059034

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