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ReviewViruses2018

All-Round Manipulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton by HIV.

Alberto Ospina Stella, Stuart Turville

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Review in Viruses, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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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

48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Pathogen-Mediated Cell Fusion and Actin Cytoskeleton.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  5. HIV Nef amplifies mechanical heterogeneity to promote immune evasion.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  7. Direct Intercellular Transport Mode of Filovirus Nucleocapsids.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. Myosin IXB protects immune cells from virus infection.The Journal of general virology · 2025
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  17. Characterization of immortalized human podocytes infected with lentivirus as anAmerican journal of clinical and experimental immunology · 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.

Alberto Ospina StellaThe Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. aospinastella@kirby.unsw.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0002-0972-8693
Stuart TurvilleThe Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. sturville@kirby.unsw.edu.au.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While significant progress has been made in terms of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) therapy, treatment does not represent a cure and remains inaccessible to many people living with HIV. Continued mechanistic research into the viral life cycle and its intersection with many aspects of cellular biology are not only fundamental in the continued fight against HIV, but also provide many key observations of the workings of our immune system. Decades of HIV research have testified to the integral role of the actin cytoskeleton in both establishing and spreading the infection. Here, we review how the virus uses different strategies to manipulate cellular actin networks and increase the efficiency of various stages of its life cycle. While some HIV proteins seem able to bind to actin filaments directly, subversion of the cytoskeleton occurs indirectly by exploiting the power of actin regulatory proteins, which are corrupted at multiple levels. Furthermore, this manipulation is not restricted to a discrete class of proteins, but rather extends throughout all layers of the cytoskeleton. We discuss prominent examples of actin regulators that are exploited, neutralized or hijacked by the virus, and address how their coordinated deregulation can lead to changes in cellular behavior that promote viral spreading.

Indexed as

Host-Pathogen InteractionsActin CytoskeletonActinsCytoskeletonHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansProtein Bindingrho GTP-Binding ProteinsSignal TransductionViral ProteinsVirus InternalizationActinsrho GTP-Binding ProteinsViral Proteinsactincell-cell transfercytoskeletonHIVinboundmanipulationoutboundRho-GTPasesvirological synapsevirus

Identifiers

PMID29401736
PMCPMC5850370

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