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Epigenetic control of cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation.

Xue-feng Liu, Xueqiong Wang, Shixian Yan, Zheng Zhang, Michael Abecassis, Mary Hummel

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In one paragraph

Review in Viruses, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Mechanisms and Determinants of CMV Reactivation in Kidney Transplantation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  17. A clinically relevant murine model unmasks a "two-hit" mechanism for reactivation and dissemination of cytomegalovirus after kidney transplant.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2019
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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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xue-feng LiuDepartment of Surgery, Comprehensive Transplant Center, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611, USA. xue-liu@northwestern.edu
Xueqiong Wang
Shixian Yan
Zheng Zhang
Michael Abecassis
Mary Hummel
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Epigenetic control of cytomegalovirus latency and reactivationR21AI076771 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HUMMEL, MARY A · 2008 to 2009
$415k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI076771NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI76771
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) gene expression is repressed in latency due to heterochromatinization of viral genomes. In murine CMV (MCMV) latently infected mice, viral genomes are bound to histones with heterochromatic modifications, to enzymes that mediate these modifications, and to adaptor proteins that may recruit co-repressor complexes. Kinetic analyses of repressor binding show that these repressors are recruited at the earliest time of infection, suggesting that latency may be the default state. Kidney transplantation leads to epigenetic reprogramming of latent viral chromatin and reactivation of immediate early gene expression. Inflammatory signaling pathways, which activate transcription factors that regulate the major immediate early promoter (MIEP), likely mediate the switch in viral chromatin.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, ViralHost-Pathogen InteractionsVirus ActivationVirus LatencyCytomegalovirusHumans

Identifiers

PMID23698401
PMCPMC3712310
OpenAlexW2098870238

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