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ArticleJournal of virology2011

A new Ebola virus nonstructural glycoprotein expressed through RNA editing.

Masfique Mehedi, Darryl Falzarano, Jochen Seebach, Xiaojie Hu, Michael S Carpenter, Hans-Joachim Schnittler, Heinz Feldmann

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Article in Journal of virology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 111 papers.

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111citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

111 citing papers in PubMed, 183 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Masfique MehediDepartment of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Darryl Falzarano
Jochen Seebach
Xiaojie Hu
Michael S Carpenter
Hans-Joachim Schnittler
Heinz Feldmann
University of Manitoba · CAUniversity of Münster · DENational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · USNational Institutes of Health · USPublic Health Agency of Canada · CA

Funding

Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Disease Modeling and TransmissionZIAAI001089 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI FELDMANN, HEINRICH · 2009 to 2025
$50.7M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ebola virus (EBOV), an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus, causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates. The EBOV glycoprotein (GP) gene encodes the nonstructural soluble glycoprotein (sGP) but also produces the transmembrane glycoprotein (GP₁,₂) through transcriptional editing. A third GP gene product, a small soluble glycoprotein (ssGP), has long been postulated to be produced also as a result of transcriptional editing. To identify and characterize the expression of this new EBOV protein, we first analyzed the relative ratio of GP gene-derived transcripts produced during infection in vitro (in Vero E6 cells or Huh7 cells) and in vivo (in mice). The average percentages of transcripts encoding sGP, GP₁,₂, and ssGP were approximately 70, 25, and 5%, respectively, indicating that ssGP transcripts are indeed produced via transcriptional editing. N-terminal sequence similarity with sGP, the absence of distinguishing antibodies, and the abundance of sGP made it difficult to identify ssGP through conventional methodology. Optimized 2-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis analyses finally verified the expression and secretion of ssGP in tissue culture during EBOV infection. Biochemical analysis of recombinant ssGP characterized this protein as a disulfide-linked homodimer that was exclusively N glycosylated. In conclusion, we have identified and characterized a new EBOV nonstructural glycoprotein, which is expressed as a result of transcriptional editing of the GP gene. While ssGP appears to share similar structural properties with sGP, it does not appear to have the same anti-inflammatory function on endothelial cells as sGP.

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Gene Expression Regulation, ViralRNA EditingAnimalsCell LineEbolavirusElectrophoresis, Gel, Two-DimensionalGene Expression ProfilingGlycoproteinsHumansMembrane GlycoproteinsMiceViral Matrix ProteinsViral Nonstructural ProteinsGlycoproteinsMembrane Glycoproteinstransmembrane glycoprotein, Ebola virusViral Matrix ProteinsViral Nonstructural Proteins

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PMID21411529
PMCPMC3094950
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