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ReviewViruses2016

Applications of Replicating-Competent Reporter-Expressing Viruses in Diagnostic and Molecular Virology.

Yongfeng Li, Lian-Feng Li, Shaoxiong Yu, Xiao Wang, Lingkai Zhang, Jiahui Yu, Libao Xie, Weike Li, Razim Ali, Hua-Ji Qiu

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Review in Viruses, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Yongfeng LiState Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, China. 15204662904@126.com.
Lian-Feng LiState Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, China. lilianfeng124603@163.com.
Shaoxiong YuState Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, China. yushaoxiong1987@hotmail.com.
Xiao WangState Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, China. wangxiao2037@126.com.
Lingkai ZhangState Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, China. tdzlk1991@163.com.
Jiahui YuState Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, China. yujiahui2014@126.com.
Libao XieState Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, China. xielibao2015@163.com.
Weike LiDepartment of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA. wli22@gsu.edu.
Razim AliUniversity of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan. razimalikhan@gmail.com.
Hua-Ji QiuState Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001, China. huajiqiu@hvri.ac.cn.
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences · CNGeorgia State University · USUniversity of Karachi · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Commonly used tests based on wild-type viruses, such as immunostaining, cannot meet the demands for rapid detection of viral replication, high-throughput screening for antivirals, as well as for tracking viral proteins or virus transport in real time. Notably, the development of replicating-competent reporter-expressing viruses (RCREVs) has provided an excellent option to detect directly viral replication without the use of secondary labeling, which represents a significant advance in virology. This article reviews the applications of RCREVs in diagnostic and molecular virology, including rapid neutralization tests, high-throughput screening systems, identification of viral receptors and virus-host interactions, dynamics of viral infections in vitro and in vivo, vaccination approaches and others. However, there remain various challenges associated with RCREVs, including pathogenicity alterations due to the insertion of a reporter gene, instability or loss of the reporter gene expression, or attenuation of reporter signals in vivo. Despite all these limitations, RCREVs have become powerful tools for both basic and applied virology with the development of new technologies for generating RCREVs, the inventions of novel reporters and the better understanding of regulation of viral replication.

Indexed as

Gene ExpressionGenes, ReporterVirus ReplicationAnimalsHumansMolecular BiologyStaining and LabelingVirologyViruseshigh-throughput screeningmolecular virologyreplicating-competent virusreporter

Identifiers

PMID27164126
PMCPMC4885082
OpenAlexW2346947311

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