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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2019

Hepatitis A Virus Capsid Structure.

David I Stuart, Jingshan Ren, Xiangxi Wang, Zihe Rao, Elizabeth E Fry

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. New Advances in Small Molecules Targeted at Viral Capsid-Genome Binding.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  14. Hepatitis A virus infection.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023
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  18. [Viral hepatitis A to E: prevalence, pathogen characteristics, and pathogenesis].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

David I StuartDivision of Structural Biology, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.
Jingshan RenDivision of Structural Biology, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.
Xiangxi WangNational Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China.
Zihe RaoNational Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China.
Elizabeth E FryDivision of Structural Biology, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council G1000099Medical Research Council G1100525Medical Research Council MR/N00065X/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) has been enigmatic, evading detailed structural analysis for many years. Its recently determined high-resolution structure revealed an angular surface without the indentations often characteristic of receptor-binding sites. The viral protein 1 (VP1) β-barrel shows no sign of a pocket factor and the amino terminus of VP2 displays a "domain swap" across the pentamer interface, as in a subset of mammalian picornaviruses and insect picorna-like viruses. Structure-based phylogeny confirms this placement. These differences suggest an uncoating mechanism distinct from that of enteroviruses. An empty capsid structure reveals internal differences in VP0 and the VP1 amino terminus connected with particle maturation. An HAV/Fab complex structure, in which the antigen-binding fragment (Fab) appears to act as a receptor-mimic, clarifies some historical epitope mapping data, but some remain difficult to reconcile. We still have little idea of the structural features of enveloped HAV particles.

Indexed as

CapsidCapsid ProteinsHepatitis A virusPhylogenyPicornaviridaeVirionVirus InternalizationVirus ReplicationCapsid Proteins

Identifiers

PMID30037986
PMCPMC6496327

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