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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2018

Roles of Arenavirus Z Protein in Mediating Virion Budding, Viral Transcription-Inhibition and Interferon-Beta Suppression.

Junjie Shao, Yuying Liang, Hinh Ly

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Structural and molecular biology of Sabiá virus.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2023
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  3. Lassa Virus Structural Biology and Replication.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Junjie ShaoDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 1988 Fitch Ave., 295 AS/VM Bldg, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
Yuying LiangDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 1988 Fitch Ave., 295 AS/VM Bldg, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
Hinh LyDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 1988 Fitch Ave., 295 AS/VM Bldg, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA. hly@umn.edu.
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

Yessinia autotransporters (Yaps): Structure, function, and host responseU54AI057157 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ACCAVITTI-LOPER, MARY ANN V · 2003 to 2013
$91.4M
Mechanism of Lassa fever virus Z protein in immune suppression and viral virulenceR01AI131586 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LIANG, YUYING, LY, HINH · 2017 to 2021
$3.8M
Molecular determinants of virulent arenavirus infection in hostsR01AI083409 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LIANG, YUYING · 2010 to 2014
$2.1M
Novel Mechanism of Immune Evasion by Arenaviral NucleoproteinsR01AI093580 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LY, HINH · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
Cap snatching mechanism of arenavirusesR56AI091805 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI LY, HINH · 2011 to 2011
$304k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI083409NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI093580NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI131586NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI091805NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI057157
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The smallest arenaviral protein is the zinc-finger protein (Z) that belongs to the RING finger protein family. Z serves as a main component required for virus budding from the membrane of the infected cells through self-oligomerization, a process that can be aided by the viral nucleoprotein (NP) to form the viral matrix of progeny virus particles. Z has also been shown to be essential for mediating viral transcriptional repression activity by locking the L polymerase onto the viral promoter in a catalytically inactive state, thus limiting viral replication. The Z protein has also recently been shown to inhibit the type I interferon-induction pathway by directly binding to the intracellular pathogen-sensor proteins RIG-I and MDA5, and thus inhibiting their normal functions. This chapter describes several assays used to examine the important roles of the arenaviral Z protein in mediating virus budding (i.e., either Z self-budding or NP-Z budding activities), viral transcriptional inhibition in a viral minigenome (MG) assay, and type I IFN suppression in an IFN-β promoter-mediated luciferase reporter assay.

Indexed as

ArenavirusInterferon-betaNucleoproteinsPichinde virusViral ProteinsVirus ReleaseVirus ReplicationInterferon-betaNucleoproteinsViral ProteinsZ protein, Machupo virusArenavirusInterferon suppressionLassa virusMatrix proteinPichindé virusRING proteinTranscription inhibitionVirus budding

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PMID28986837
PMCPMC6439471
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