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ReviewJournal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research2011

The interferon-inducible host factor bone marrow stromal antigen 2/tetherin restricts virion release, but is it actually a viral restriction factor?

Amy Andrew, Klaus Strebel

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Review in Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amy AndrewLaboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Viral Biochemistry Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 90892-0460, USA.
Klaus Strebel
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Molecular Analysis Of Retroviral Genes And Their ProductsZIAAI000669 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI STREBEL, KLAUS · 2009 to 2025
$25.2M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viruses face a variety of obstacles when infecting a new host. The past few years have brought exciting new insights into the function of restriction factors, which form part of the host's innate immune system. One of the most recently identified restriction factors is bone marrow stromal antigen 2 (BST-2)/tetherin. BST-2 is an interferon-inducible gene whose expression dramatically reduces the release of viruses from infected cells. This effect of BST-2 is not specific to human immunodeficiency virus but affects a broad range of enveloped viruses. Since the identification of BST-2 as a restriction factor in 2008, much progress has been made in understanding the molecular properties and functional characteristics of this host factor. The goal of this review was to provide an update on our current understanding of the role of BST-2 in regulating virus release and to discuss its role in controlling virus spread during productive infection with special emphasis on human immunodeficiency virus-1.

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Gene Expression RegulationVirus ReleaseVirus ReplicationAnimalsAntigens, CDBone Marrow Stromal Antigen 2GPI-Linked ProteinsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmunity, InnateInterferonsProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsVirionAntigens, CDBone Marrow Stromal Antigen 2BST2 protein, humanGPI-Linked ProteinsInterferons

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PMID21166593
PMCPMC3021358
OpenAlexW2021701271

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