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ArticleJournal of virology2017

Filling Knowledge Gaps for Mimivirus Entry, Uncoating, and Morphogenesis.

Ana Cláudia Dos Santos Pereira Andrade, Rodrigo Araújo Lima Rodrigues, Graziele Pereira Oliveira, Kétyllen Reis Andrade, Cláudio Antônio Bonjardim, Bernard La Scola, Erna Geessien Kroon, Jônatas Santos Abrahão

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Article in Journal of virology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.1field-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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ana Cláudia Dos Santos Pereira AndradeDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Rodrigo Araújo Lima RodriguesDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Graziele Pereira OliveiraDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Kétyllen Reis AndradeLaboratório de Imunopatologia de Doenças Virais, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou-Fiocruz, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Cláudio Antônio BonjardimDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Bernard La ScolaURMITE, CNRS UMR 6236, IRD 3R198, Aix Marseille Universite, Marseille, France.
Erna Geessien KroonDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Jônatas Santos AbrahãoDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil jonatas.abrahao@gmail.com.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais · BRAix-Marseille Université · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the discovery of mimivirus, its unusual structural and genomic features have raised great interest in the study of its biology; however, many aspects concerning its replication cycle remain uncertain. In this study, extensive analyses of electron microscope images, as well as biological assay results, shed light on unclear points concerning the mimivirus replication cycle. We found that treatment with cytochalasin, a phagocytosis inhibitor, negatively impacted the incorporation of mimivirus particles by

Indexed as

Virus InternalizationAcanthamoeba castellaniiMimiviridaePhagocytosisVirus ReplicationVirus Uncoatingelectron microscopyfibril acquisition areamimivirusphagocytosisreplication cycle

Identifiers

PMID28878069
PMCPMC5660479
OpenAlexW2750600129

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