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ArticleScience advances2015

Cellular defense against latent colonization foiled by human cytomegalovirus UL138 protein.

Song Hee Lee, Emily R Albright, Jeong-Hee Lee, Derek Jacobs, Robert F Kalejta

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Article in Science advances, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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58citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Song Hee LeeInstitute for Molecular Virology and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Emily R AlbrightInstitute for Molecular Virology and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Jeong-Hee LeeInstitute for Molecular Virology and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Derek JacobsInstitute for Molecular Virology and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0676-8064
Robert F KalejtaInstitute for Molecular Virology and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Role of Daxx degradation by pp71 during the Human Cytomegalovirus life cycleR01AI074984 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI KALEJTA, ROBERT F · 2008 to 2018
$3.5M
Virology Training ProgramT32AI078985 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI LAMBERT, PAUL F. · 2009 to 2018
$3.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI074984NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI078985
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrinsic immune defenses mediated by restriction factors inhibit productive viral infections. Select viruses rapidly establish latent infections and, with gene expression profiles that imply cell-autonomous intrinsic defenses, may be the most effective immune control measure against latent reservoirs. We illustrate that lysine-specific demethylases (KDMs) are restriction factors that prevent human cytomegalovirus from establishing latency by removing repressive epigenetic modifications from histones associated with the viral major immediate early promoter (MIEP), stimulating the expression of a viral lytic phase target of cell-mediated adaptive immunity. The viral UL138 protein negates this defense by preventing KDM association with the MIEP. The presence of an intrinsic defense against latency and the emergence of a cognate neutralizing viral factor indicate that "arms races" between hosts and viruses over lifelong colonization exist at the cellular level.

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cytomegalovirusEpigeneticsherpesrestrictiontranscription

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