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ArticleJournal of virology2010

Accessory protein 5a is a major antagonist of the antiviral action of interferon against murine coronavirus.

Cheri A Koetzner, Lili Kuo, Scott J Goebel, Amy B Dean, Monica M Parker, Paul S Masters

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Article in Journal of virology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cheri A KoetznerNew York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York 12201-2002, USA.
Lili Kuo
Scott J Goebel
Amy B Dean
Monica M Parker
Paul S Masters
New York State Department of Health · USWadsworth Center · US

Funding

Genetic Analysis of Molecular Interactions in Coronavirus ReplicationR01AI064603 · NIAID · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI MASTERS, PAUL SCOTT · 2005 to 2015
$4.7M
Genetic Analysis of Molecular Interactions in Coronavirus ReplicationR56AI064603 · NIAID · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI MASTERS, PAUL SCOTT · 2010 to 2010
$536k
NIAID NIH HHS AI 64603NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI064603NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI064603
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The type I interferon (IFN) response plays an essential role in the control of in vivo infection by the coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus (MHV). However, in vitro, most strains of MHV are largely resistant to the action of this cytokine, suggesting that MHV encodes one or more functions that antagonize or evade the IFN system. A particular strain of MHV, MHV-S, exhibited orders-of-magnitude higher sensitivity to IFN than prototype strain MHV-A59. Through construction of interstrain chimeric recombinants, the basis for the enhanced IFN sensitivity of MHV-S was found to map entirely to the region downstream of the spike gene, at the 3' end of the genome. Sequence analysis revealed that the major difference between the two strains in this region is the absence of gene 5a from MHV-S. Creation of a gene 5a knockout mutant of MHV-A59 demonstrated that a major component of IFN resistance maps to gene 5a. Conversely, insertion of gene 5a, or its homologs from related group 2 coronaviruses, at an upstream genomic position in an MHV-A59/S chimera restored IFN resistance. This is the first demonstration of a coronavirus gene product that can protect that same virus from the antiviral state induced by IFN. Neither protein kinase R, which phosphorylates eukaryotic initiation factor 2, nor oligoadenylate synthetase, which activates RNase L, was differentially activated in IFN-treated cells infected with MHV-A59 or MHV-S. Thus, the major IFN-induced antiviral activities that are specifically inhibited by MHV, and possibly by other coronaviruses, remain to be identified.

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AnimalsBase SequenceCell LineChromosome MappingDNA Mutational AnalysisGene Knockout TechniquesGenetic Complementation TestImmune EvasionImmune ToleranceInterferonsMiceMolecular Sequence DataMurine hepatitis virusRNA, ViralSequence Analysis, DNAViral Plaque AssayInterferonsRNA, ViralViral ProteinsVirulence Factors

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PMID20519394
PMCPMC2916514
OpenAlexW2156455932

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