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ArticleViruses2015

Differentially-Expressed Pseudogenes in HIV-1 Infection.

Aditi Gupta, C Titus Brown, Yong-Hui Zheng, Christoph Adami

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Article in Viruses, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aditi GuptaDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. agupta@msu.edu.
C Titus BrownDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. ctbrown@ucdavis.edu.
Yong-Hui ZhengDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. zhengyo@msu.edu.
Christoph AdamiDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. adami@msu.edu.
Michigan State University · US

Funding

VprR21AI106477 · NIAID · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHENG, YONG-HUI · 2013 to 2014
$408k
NIAID NIH HHS AI106477NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI106477
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Not all pseudogenes are transcriptionally silent as previously thought. Pseudogene transcripts, although not translated, contribute to the non-coding RNA pool of the cell that regulates the expression of other genes. Pseudogene transcripts can also directly compete with the parent gene transcripts for mRNA stability and other cell factors, modulating their expression levels. Tissue-specific and cancer-specific differential expression of these "functional" pseudogenes has been reported. To ascertain potential pseudogene:gene interactions in HIV-1 infection, we analyzed transcriptomes from infected and uninfected T-cells and found that 21 pseudogenes are differentially expressed in HIV-1 infection. This is interesting because parent genes of one-third of these differentially-expressed pseudogenes are implicated in HIV-1 life cycle, and parent genes of half of these pseudogenes are involved in different viral infections. Our bioinformatics analysis identifies candidate pseudogene:gene interactions that may be of significance in HIV-1 infection. Experimental validation of these interactions would establish that retroviruses exploit this newly-discovered layer of host gene expression regulation for their own benefit.

Indexed as

Gene Expression ProfilingHost-Pathogen InteractionsPseudogenesCell LineHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansSequence Analysis, RNAT-LymphocytesTranscription, Geneticdifferential gene expressionHIV-1pseudogenesRNASeqtranscriptome

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PMID26426037
PMCPMC4632377
OpenAlexW1936936560

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