ReviewViruses2018
Pathogen at the Gates: Human Cytomegalovirus Entry and Cell Tropism.
Review in Viruses, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 108 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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108 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Associations between human cytomegalovirus infection and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2023Pooled it
- Cytomegalovirus Humoral Response Against Epithelial Cell Entry-Mediated Infection in the Primary Infection Setting After Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2020Trial
- Human Cytomegalovirus Genetic Diversity, Clinical Relevance, and Emerging Insights.Reviews in medical virology · 2026Review
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- Mapping the monoclonal antibody landscape of human cytomegalovirus.Journal of virology · 2026Review
- Quantifying and combating zoonotic viruses poised for emergence: Using multiplex receptor screening and decoy engineering technologies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Knockout of key receptors (PDGFRA and NRP2) in the guinea pig model blocks direct and endocytic pathways of CMV cell entry.The Journal of general virology · 2026Article
- Isolation and characterization of broadly-neutralizing anti-HCMV-gB antibodies from human donors using a prefusion-stabilized HCMV gB variant.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
- Initiation of human cytomegalovirus secondary envelopment requires the gM/gN glycoprotein complex and involves palmitoylation.Journal of virology · 2026Article
- Viral entry shapes HCMV latency establishment.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- The immunomodulatory role of human cytomegalovirus in cancer in the era of checkpoint immunotherapy.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Increased infectivity of human cytomegalovirus strain TB40/E conferred by variants of the envelope glycoprotein UL128 and the regulatory protein IE2.Journal of virology · 2025Article
- Virion proteomics of genetically intact HCMV reveals a regulator of envelope glycoprotein composition that protects against humoral immunity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Cytomegalovirus latency-the sum of subtleties.Journal of virology · 2025Review
- The GATE glycoprotein complex enhances human cytomegalovirus entry in endothelial cells.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
- Precision engineering of human cytomegalovirus without BAC constraints: a Sendai virus-delivered CRISPR/Cas9 approach.The Journal of general virology · 2025Article
- Identification of the human cytomegalovirus gHgLgO trimer as the central player in virion infectivity.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Opening the 'GATE' for human cytomegalovirus entry.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
48 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The past few years have brought substantial progress toward understanding how human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) enters the remarkably wide spectrum of cell types and tissues that it infects. Neuropilin-2 and platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFRα) were identified as receptors, respectively, for the trimeric and pentameric glycoprotein H/glycoprotein L (gH/gL) complexes that in large part govern HCMV cell tropism, while CD90 and CD147 were also found to play roles during entry. X-ray crystal structures for the proximal viral fusogen, glycoprotein B (gB), and for the pentameric gH/gL complex (pentamer) have been solved. A novel virion gH complex consisting of gH bound to UL116 instead of gL was described, and findings supporting the existence of a stable complex between gH/gL and gB were reported. Additional work indicates that the pentamer promotes a mode of cell-associated spread that resists antibody neutralization, as opposed to the trimeric gH/gL complex (trimer), which appears to be broadly required for the infectivity of cell-free virions. Finally, viral factors such as UL148 and US16 were identified that can influence the incorporation of the alternative gH/gL complexes into virions. We will review these advances and their implications for understanding HCMV entry and cell tropism.
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