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ArticleViruses2010

Implications of the nucleocapsid and the microenvironment in retroviral reverse transcription.

Marylène Mougel, Andrea Cimarelli, Jean-Luc Darlix

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Article in Viruses, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marylène MougelCPBS, UMR5236 CNRS, UMI, 4 bd Henri IV, 34965 Montpellier, France.
Andrea CimarelliLaboRetro Unité de Virologie humaine INSERM #758, IFR128, ENS Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, France.
Jean-Luc DarlixLaboRetro Unité de Virologie humaine INSERM #758, IFR128, ENS Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, France.
Inserm · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This mini-review summarizes the process of reverse-transcription, an obligatory step in retrovirus replication during which the retroviral RNA/DNA-dependent DNA polymerase (RT) copies the single-stranded genomic RNA to generate the double-stranded viral DNA while degrading the genomic RNA via its associated RNase H activity. The hybridization of complementary viral sequences by the nucleocapsid protein (NC) receives a special focus, since it acts to chaperone the strand transfers obligatory for synthesis of the complete viral DNA and flanking long terminal repeats (LTR). Since the physiological microenvironment can impact on reverse-transcription, this mini-review also focuses on factors present in the intra-cellular or extra-cellular milieu that can drastically influence both the timing and the activity of reverse-transcription and hence virus infectivity.

Indexed as

genomic RNAnucleocapsid proteinreverse transcriptaseSEVIstrand transfersviral DNA

Identifiers

PMID21994662
PMCPMC3185662
OpenAlexW2007285603

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