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ArticleVirology2015

Oxidative stress influences positive strand RNA virus genome synthesis and capping.

Rebekah C Gullberg, J Jordan Steel, Stephanie L Moon, Elnaz Soltani, Brian J Geiss

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Article in Virology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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70citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed, 121 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rebekah C GullbergDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
J Jordan SteelDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Stephanie L MoonDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Elnaz SoltaniDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Brian J GeissDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. Electronic address: Brian.Geiss@colostate.edu.
Colorado State University · US

Funding

Vascular stabilization as a broad theraprutic platform for biodefenseU54AI065357 · NIAID · COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY-FORT COLLINS · PI SCHWEIZER, HERBERT P. · 2005 to 2013
$77.5M
NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI065357NIAID NIH HHS U54AI065357
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flaviviruses are 5' capped positive-stranded RNA viruses that replicate their genomes within endoplasmic reticulum-derived vesicles. Flaviviruses are well known to induce oxidative stress late in infection but it is unknown if oxidative stress plays a positive role in the viral RNA replication cycle. We therefore examined how oxidation affects flavivirus RNA replication. We found that antioxidant treatment reduced virus production, reduced the viral positive-to-negative strand RNA ratio, and resulted in the accumulation of uncapped positive-sense viral RNAs. Treatment of the NS5 RNA capping enzyme in vitro with oxidizing agents enhanced guanylyltransferase activity, indicating that the guanylyltransferase function of the flavivirus NS5 RNA capping enzyme is activated by oxidative conditions. Antioxidant treatment also reduced alphavirus RNA replication and protein expression while enhancing nsP1 capping activity. These findings suggest that RNA viruses may utilize oxidative stress induced during infection to help temporally control genome RNA capping and genome replication.

Indexed as

AedesAnimalsCell LineCricetinaeGene Expression Regulation, ViralGenome, ViralHumansNucleotidyltransferasesOxidative StressRecombinant ProteinsRNA CapsSindbis VirusViral ProteinsWest Nile virusguanylyltransferaseNucleotidyltransferasesRecombinant ProteinsRNA CapsViral ProteinsFlavivirusGuanylyltransferaseOxidationRNA capping

Identifiers

PMID25514423
PMCPMC4332586
OpenAlexW1989610580

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