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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2011

Fusing structure and function: a structural view of the herpesvirus entry machinery.

Sarah A Connolly, Julia O Jackson, Theodore S Jardetzky, Richard Longnecker

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Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 307 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
307citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
28.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

307 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 472 citations in OpenAlex.

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247 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah A ConnollyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Julia O Jackson
Theodore S Jardetzky
Richard Longnecker
Northwestern University · USStanford University · US

Funding

Structural and Functional Studies of gp42 and HLA Class II in EBV EntryR01AI076183 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI JARDETZKY, THEODORE S, LONGNECKER, RICHARD M · 2008 to 2017
$4.6M
HERPESVIRUS GENE EXPRESSION IN TRANSFORMED CELLSR01CA021776 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI LONGNECKER, RICHARD M · 1985 to 2017
$4.2M
Inhibitors of the Epstein-Barr Virus Entry MachineryR01CA117794 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI JARDETZKY, THEODORE S, LONGNECKER, RICHARD M · 2006 to 2016
$3.0M
EBV gB Function in Viral Fusion, Entry, and EgressR01AI067048 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LONGNECKER, RICHARD M · 2007 to 2011
$1.9M
Functional Studies of gp42 and HLA Class 11 in EBVR01CA093444 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LONGNECKER, RICHARD M · 2002 to 2006
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS CA117794NCI NIH HHS R01 CA021776NCI NIH HHS R01 CA093444NCI NIH HHS R01 CA117794NIAID NIH HHS AI067048NIAID NIH HHS AI076183NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI067048NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI076183
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Herpesviruses are double-stranded DNA, enveloped viruses that infect host cells through fusion with either the host cell plasma membrane or endocytic vesicle membranes. Efficient infection of host cells by herpesviruses is remarkably more complex than infection by other viruses, as it requires the concerted effort of multiple glycoproteins and involves multiple host receptors. The structures of the major viral glycoproteins and a number of host receptors involved in the entry of the prototypical herpesviruses, the herpes simplex viruses (HSVs) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), are now known. These structural studies have accelerated our understanding of HSV and EBV binding and fusion by revealing the conformational changes that occur on virus-receptor binding, depicting potential sites of functional protein and lipid interactions, and identifying the probable viral fusogen.

Indexed as

Virus InternalizationAnimalsCell MembraneHerpesviridaeHerpesviridae InfectionsHumansViral ProteinsViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID21478902
PMCPMC3242325
OpenAlexW2092071546

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