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ArticleCell host & microbe2014

The host nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway restricts Mammalian RNA virus replication.

Giuseppe Balistreri, Peter Horvath, Christoph Schweingruber, David Zünd, Gerald McInerney, Andres Merits, Oliver Mühlemann, Claus Azzalin, Ari Helenius

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Article in Cell host & microbe, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 110 papers.

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5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

110 citing papers in PubMed, 181 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.

Giuseppe BalistreriInstitute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland. Electronic address: giuseppe.balistreri@helsinki.fi.
Peter HorvathSynthetic and System Biology Unit, Biological Research Center, 6726 Szeged, Hungary; FIMM Institute, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
Christoph SchweingruberDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland; Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
David ZündDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Gerald McInerneyDepartment of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden.
Andres MeritsInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50090 Tartu, Estonia.
Oliver MühlemannDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Claus AzzalinInstitute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Ari HeleniusInstitute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
ETH Zurich · CHUniversity of Bern · CHKarolinska Institutet · SEUniversity of Helsinki · FIUniversity of Tartu · EE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In addition to classically defined immune mechanisms, cell-intrinsic processes can restrict virus infection and have shaped virus evolution. The details of this virus-host interaction are still emerging. Following a genome-wide siRNA screen for host factors affecting replication of Semliki Forest virus (SFV), a positive-strand RNA (+RNA) virus, we found that depletion of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway components Upf1, Smg5, and Smg7 led to increased levels of viral proteins and RNA and higher titers of released virus. The inhibitory effect of NMD was stronger when virus replication efficiency was impaired by mutations or deletions in the replicase proteins. Consequently, depletion of NMD components resulted in a more than 20-fold increase in production of these attenuated viruses. These findings indicate that a cellular mRNA quality control mechanism serves as an intrinsic barrier to the translation of early viral proteins and the amplification of +RNA viruses in animal cells.

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Nonsense Mediated mRNA DecayVirus ReplicationAlphavirus InfectionsCarrier ProteinsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansRNA HelicasesSemliki forest virusTrans-ActivatorsViral ProteinsVirus ReleaseCarrier ProteinsRNA HelicasesSMG5 protein, humanSMG7 protein, humanTrans-ActivatorsUPF1 protein, humanViral Proteins

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PMID25211080
OpenAlexW2166964088

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