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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

HIV Tat/P-TEFb Interaction: A Potential Target for Novel Anti-HIV Therapies.

Kaori Asamitsu, Koh Fujinaga, Takashi Okamoto

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kaori AsamitsuDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan. asamitsu@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp.
Koh FujinagaDepartment of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0703, USA. Koh.Fujinaga@ucsf.edu.
Takashi OkamotoDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan. tokamoto@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp.
Nagoya City University · JPUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

HIV transcriptome analysis during viral latencyR21AI127274 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FUJINAGA, KOH · 2016 to 2017
$436k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI127274
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcription is a crucial step in the life cycle of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV 1) and is primarily involved in the maintenance of viral latency. Both viral and cellular transcription factors, including transcriptional activators, suppressor proteins and epigenetic factors, are involved in HIV transcription from the proviral DNA integrated within the host cell genome. Among them, the virus-encoded transcriptional activator Tat is the master regulator of HIV transcription. Interestingly, unlike other known transcriptional activators, Tat primarily activates transcriptional elongation and initiation by interacting with the cellular positive transcriptional elongation factor b (P-TEFb). In this review, we describe the molecular mechanism underlying how Tat activates viral transcription through interaction with P-TEFb. We propose a novel therapeutic strategy against HIV replication through blocking Tat action.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, ViralHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansRNA-Binding Proteinstat Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusTranscriptional Elongation FactorsTranscription FactorsVirus ReplicationHEXIM1 protein, humanRNA-Binding Proteinstat Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusTranscriptional Elongation FactorsTranscription FactorsCDK9cyclin T1HEXIM1HIV transcriptionP-TEFbTat

Identifiers

PMID29673219
PMCPMC6017356
OpenAlexW2799682788

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