Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21994775›Full record

ReviewViruses2011

Beclin-1 targeting for viral immune escape.

Christian Münz

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Viruses, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 52 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christian MünzViral Immunobiology, Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland. christian.muenz@uzh.ch
University of Zurich · CH

Funding

DC/NK interactions in human secondary lymphoid organsR01CA108609 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH · PI MUNZ, CHRISTIAN · 2004 to 2012
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA108609NCI NIH HHS R01CA108609
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macroautophagy is a catabolic pathway in eukaryotic cells that has recently been shown to facilitate pathogen detection, pathogen restriction and pathogen-derived antigen presentation to CD4(+) T cells. Due to these protective functions during immune responses, several pathogens, including RNA and DNA viruses, have developed strategies to inhibit autophagosome generation or maturation. Interestingly, most of the respective viral proteins exert these functions via binding to Beclin-1, an essential macroautophagy protein that constitutes part of the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase complexes that mark membranes for autophagosome generation and facilitate autophagosome fusion with lyososomes. The viruses that inhibit macroautophagy by this pathway include herpesviruses, HIV and influenza A virus. Inhibition either before or after autophagosome formation seems to benefit their viral replication by different mechanisms, which are discussed here.

Indexed as

AnimalsApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsAutophagyBeclin-1DNA VirusesHumansImmune EvasionMembrane ProteinsRNA VirusesVirus DiseasesApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsBeclin-1BECN1 protein, humanMembrane ProteinsautophagyHIVHSVimmune evasionimmunityinfluenza virusKSHV

Identifiers

PMID21994775
PMCPMC3185790
OpenAlexW2154457411

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Registered trials

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