Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27809273›Full record

ReviewViruses2016

The Importance of Physiologically Relevant Cell Lines for Studying Virus-Host Interactions.

David Hare, Susan Collins, Breanne Cuddington, Karen Mossman

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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 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
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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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David HarePathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, 1280 Main Str. West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada. haredn@mcmaster.ca.
Susan CollinsPathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, 1280 Main Str. West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada. susan_collins@hotmail.com.
Breanne CuddingtonPathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, 1280 Main Str. West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada. cuddinbp@mcmaster.ca.
Karen MossmanPathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, 1280 Main Str. West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada. mossk@mcmaster.ca.

Funding

CIHR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viruses interact intimately with the host cell at nearly every stage of replication, and the cell model that is chosen to study virus infection is critically important. Although primary cells reflect the phenotype of healthy cells in vivo better than cell lines, their limited lifespan makes experimental manipulation challenging. However, many tumor-derived and artificially immortalized cell lines have defects in induction of interferon-stimulated genes and other antiviral defenses. These defects can affect virus replication, especially when cells are infected at lower, more physiologically relevant, multiplicities of infection. Understanding the selective pressures and mechanisms underlying the loss of innate signaling pathways is helpful to choose immortalized cell lines without impaired antiviral defense. We describe the trials and tribulations we encountered while searching for an immortalized cell line with intact innate signaling, and how directed immortalization of primary cells avoids many of the pitfalls of spontaneous immortalization.

Indexed as

Cells, CulturedHost-Pathogen InteractionsImmunity, InnateHumansVirusesantiviral defenseimmortalized cellinterferoninterferon regulatory factor 3interferon-stimulated genesprimary cellsignal transduction

Identifiers

PMID27809273
PMCPMC5127011

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