Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29137162›Full record

ReviewViruses2017

Structures and Functions of the Envelope Glycoprotein in Flavivirus Infections.

Xingcui Zhang, Renyong Jia, Haoyue Shen, Mingshu Wang, Zhongqiong Yin, Anchun Cheng

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Review in Viruses, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers.

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94citing papers in PubMed
13.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

94 citing papers in PubMed, 179 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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xingcui ZhangResearch Center of Avian Disease, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, Chengdu 611130, China. zhangxc923@163.com.
Renyong JiaResearch Center of Avian Disease, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, Chengdu 611130, China. jiary@sicau.edu.cn.
Haoyue ShenResearch Center of Avian Disease, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, Chengdu 611130, China. shenhaoyue0724@163.com.
Mingshu WangResearch Center of Avian Disease, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, Chengdu 611130, China. mshwang@163.com.
Zhongqiong YinKey Laboratory of Animal Disease and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Wenjiang District, Chengdu 611130, China. yinzhongq@163.com.
Anchun ChengResearch Center of Avian Disease, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang District, Chengdu 611130, China. chenganchun@vip.163.com.ORCID 0000-0001-6093-353X
Sichuan Agricultural University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flaviviruses are enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses that widely infect many animal species. The envelope protein, a structural protein of flavivirus, plays an important role in host cell viral infections. It is composed of three separate structural envelope domains I, II, and III (EDI, EDII, and EDIII). EDI is a structurally central domain of the envelope protein which stabilizes the overall orientation of the protein, and the glycosylation sites in EDI are related to virus production, pH sensitivity, and neuroinvasiveness. EDII plays an important role in membrane fusion because of the immunodominance of the fusion loop epitope and the envelope dimer epitope. Additionally, EDIII is the major target of neutralization antibodies. The envelope protein is an important target for research to develop vaccine candidates and antiviral therapeutics. This review summarizes the structures and functions of ED I/II/III, and provides practical applications for the three domains, with the ultimate goal of implementing strategies to utilize the envelope protein against flavivirus infections, thus achieving better diagnostics and developing potential flavivirus therapeutics and vaccines.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, ViralFlavivirusFlavivirus InfectionsGlycoproteinsHumansProtein DomainsViral Envelope ProteinsVirus InternalizationVirus ReplicationAntigens, ViralGlycoproteinsViral Envelope Proteinsenvelope domains I/II/IIIenvelope proteinflavivirusmembrane fusionviral infection

Identifiers

PMID29137162
PMCPMC5707545
OpenAlexW2767429166

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