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ReviewMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR2016

Virion Glycoprotein-Mediated Immune Evasion by Human Cytomegalovirus: a Sticky Virus Makes a Slick Getaway.

Thomas J Gardner, Domenico Tortorella

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Review in Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

51 citing papers in PubMed, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. A vaccine against cytomegalovirus: how close are we?The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025
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  14. The Pentamer glycoprotein complex inhibits viral Immediate Early transcription during Human Cytomegalovirus infections.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thomas J GardnerIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Microbiology, New York, New York, USA.
Domenico TortorellaIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Microbiology, New York, New York, USA domenico.tortorella@mssm.edu.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · US

Funding

Assay development to discover therapeutics against human cytomegalovirusR01AI101820 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI TORTORELLA, DOMENICO · 2013 to 2015
$962k
Functional screening for neutralizing antibodies targeting CMV entry factorsR21AI112318 · NIAID · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI TORTORELLA, DOMENICO · 2014 to 2015
$466k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI101820NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI112318
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prototypic herpesvirus human cytomegalovirus (CMV) exhibits the extraordinary ability to establish latency and maintain a chronic infection throughout the life of its human host. This is even more remarkable considering the robust adaptive immune response elicited by infection and reactivation from latency. In addition to the ability of CMV to exist in a quiescent latent state, its persistence is enabled by a large repertoire of viral proteins that subvert immune defense mechanisms, such as NK cell activation and major histocompatibility complex antigen presentation, within the cell. However, dissemination outside the cell presents a unique existential challenge to the CMV virion, which is studded with antigenic glycoprotein complexes targeted by a potent neutralizing antibody response. The CMV virion envelope proteins, which are critical mediators of cell attachment and entry, possess various characteristics that can mitigate the humoral immune response and prevent viral clearance. Here we review the CMV glycoprotein complexes crucial for cell attachment and entry and propose inherent properties of these proteins involved in evading the CMV humoral immune response. These include viral glycoprotein polymorphism, epitope competition, Fc receptor-mediated endocytosis, glycan shielding, and cell-to-cell spread. The consequences of CMV virion glycoprotein-mediated immune evasion have a major impact on persistence of the virus in the population, and a comprehensive understanding of these evasion strategies will assist in designing effective CMV biologics and vaccines to limit CMV-associated disease.

Indexed as

Antibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralCytomegalovirusCytomegalovirus InfectionsEpitopesGlycoproteinsHumansImmune EvasionViral Envelope ProteinsViral Fusion ProteinsVirus AttachmentVirus InternalizationAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralEpitopesGlycoproteinsViral Envelope ProteinsViral Fusion Proteins

Identifiers

PMID27307580
PMCPMC4981668
OpenAlexW2434854000

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