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ReviewCancers2018

New Insights from Elucidating the Role of LMP1 in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

Kathy H Y Shair, Akhil Reddy, Vaughn S Cooper

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Review in Cancers, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. The association between lncRNA H19 and EZH2 expression in patients with EBV-positive laryngeal carcinoma.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kathy H Y ShairCancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. kas361@pitt.edu.
Akhil ReddyCancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. ANR156@pitt.edu.
Vaughn S CooperDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA. vaughn.cooper@pitt.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7726-0765
University of Pittsburgh · USUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center · US

Funding

Predicting the emergence of antibiotic resistance through multi-omics approaches and Immune System-surveillanU01AI124302 · NIAID · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI BENTO, JOSE, COOPER, VAUGHN · 2016 to 2020
$10.2M
Molecular mechanisms of adaptive diversity in Burkholderia biofilmsR01GM110444 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI COOPER, VAUGHN · 2015 to 2019
$1.5M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI124302NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM110444
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) is an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) oncogenic protein that has no intrinsic enzymatic activity or sequence homology to cellular or viral proteins. The oncogenic potential of LMP1 has been ascribed to pleiotropic signaling properties initiated through protein-protein interactions in cytosolic membrane compartments, but the effects of LMP1 extend to nuclear and extracellular processes. Although LMP1 is one of the latent genes required for EBV-immortalization of B cells, the biology of LMP1 in the pathogenesis of the epithelial cancer nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is more complex. NPC is prevalent in specific regions of the world with high incidence in southeast China. The epidemiology and time interval from seroconversion to NPC onset in adults would suggest the involvement of multiple risk factors that complement the establishment of a latent and persistent EBV infection. The contribution of LMP1 to EBV pathogenesis in polarized epithelia has only recently begun to be elucidated. Furthermore, the LMP1 gene has emerged as one of the most divergent sequences in the EBV genome. This review will discuss the significance of recent advances in NPC research from elucidating LMP1 function in epithelial cells and lessons that could be learned from mining LMP1 sequence diversity.

Indexed as

epithelial infectionEpstein-Barr virusLMP1nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Identifiers

PMID29561768
PMCPMC5923341
OpenAlexW2792725276

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