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ReviewViruses2013

Host restriction of lentiviruses and viral countermeasures: APOBEC3 and Vif.

Stefán R Jónsson, Valgerdur Andrésdóttir

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Review in Viruses, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Journal of virology · 2026
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  2. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  8. Maedi-Visna virus: current perspectives.Veterinary medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stefán R JónssonInstitute for Experimental Pathology, University of Iceland, Keldur, 112 Reykjavik, Iceland. stefanjo@hi.is
Valgerdur Andrésdóttir
University of Iceland · IS

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is becoming increasingly clear that organisms have developed a variety of mechanisms to fight against viral infection. The viruses have developed means of counteracting these defences in various ways. The APOBEC3 proteins are a mammalian-specific family of nucleic acid cytidine deaminases that block retroviral infection. These inhibitors are counteracted by the Vif proteins encoded by most lentiviruses. In this paper, we will review the interaction of the lentiviral Vif proteins with the APOBEC3 proteins, with an emphasis on sheep APOBEC3 and maedi-visna virus (MVV) Vif.

Indexed as

Host-Pathogen InteractionsAnimalsCytosine DeaminaseGene Products, vifSheepSheep DiseasesVirulence FactorsVisna-maedi virusCytosine DeaminaseGene Products, vifVirulence Factors

Identifiers

PMID23903287
PMCPMC3761234
OpenAlexW2036941095

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Registered trials

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