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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2008

Cytomegalovirus M45 cell death suppression requires receptor-interacting protein (RIP) homotypic interaction motif (RHIM)-dependent interaction with RIP1.

Jason W Upton, William J Kaiser, Edward S Mocarski

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 128 papers.

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128citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

128 citing papers in PubMed, 198 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jason W UptonDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
William J Kaiser
Edward S Mocarski
Emory University · US

Funding

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS PATHOGENESIS IN IMMUNODEFICIENCYR01AI030363 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI EDWARD S MOCARSKI, EDWARD S. · 1991 to 2011
$2.7M
Training Grant in Transfusion Medicine (T32)T32HL069769 · NHLBI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Una T O'Doherty, John D Roback · 2004 to 2026
$2.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL069769NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI 030363
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herpesviruses such as cytomegaloviruses encode functions that modulate the innate response in diverse ways to counteract host sensing and delay host clearance during infection. The murine cytomegalovirus M45 protein interacts with receptor-interacting protein (RIP) 1 and RIP3 via a RIP homotypic interaction motif. Cell death suppression by M45 requires RIP homotypic interaction motif-dependent interaction with RIP1. This interaction also underlies the cell tropism role of M45 in preventing premature death of endothelial cells during murine cytomegalovirus infection. Thus, M45 is a viral inhibitor of RIP activation that provides a direct cell type-dependent replication benefit to the virus while modulating other biological processes signaling via the RIP1 adaptor such as activation of Toll-like receptor (TLR)3 as well as other mediators of cell death.

Indexed as

Amino Acid MotifsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCell DeathCytomegalovirusGTPase-Activating ProteinsHumansMiceModels, BiologicalMolecular Sequence DataNIH 3T3 CellsNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsRibonucleotide ReductasesRNA-Binding ProteinsToll-Like Receptor 3Viral ProteinsAGFG1 protein, humanGTPase-Activating Proteinsm45 protein, Mouse cytomegalovirus 1Nuclear Pore Complex ProteinsRalbp1 protein, mouseRibonucleotide ReductasesRNA-Binding ProteinsTLR3 protein, humanTLR3 protein, mouseToll-Like Receptor 3Viral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID18442983
PMCPMC2427362
OpenAlexW2074931193

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