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ArticleNature communications2019

A viral expression factor behaves as a prion.

Hao Nan, Hongying Chen, Mick F Tuite, Xiaodong Xu

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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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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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The prion-like characteristic of ORF3 contributes to virion release and pathogenesis of hepatitis E virus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  2. A Prion-Like Domain in EBV EBNA1 Promotes Phase Separation and Enables SRRM1 Splicing.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  6. Trans-seeding of Alzheimer-related tau protein by a yeast prion.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2022
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  7. Structural Bases of Prion Variation in Yeast.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  13. Neural regeneration research · 2021
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  16. Prions: Roles in Development and Adaptive Evolution.Journal of molecular evolution · 2020
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hao NanState Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4028-5974
Hongying ChenState Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Mick F TuiteKent Fungal Group, School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NJ, UK.
Xiaodong XuState Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. xuxd@nwsuaf.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6452-8419
Northwest A&F University · CNNorth West Agriculture and Forestry University · CNUniversity of Kent · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H012982/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prions are proteins that can fold into multiple conformations some of which are self-propagating. Such prion-forming proteins have been found in animal, plant, fungal and bacterial species, but have not yet been identified in viruses. Here we report that LEF-10, a baculovirus-encoded protein, behaves as a prion. Full-length LEF-10 or its candidate prion-forming domain (cPrD) can functionally replace the PrD of Sup35, a widely studied prion-forming protein from yeast, displaying a [PSI

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsBaculoviridaeGene ExpressionGenes, ReporterGenetic Complementation TestGreen Fluorescent ProteinsLuminescent ProteinsPeptide Termination FactorsPhenotypePrion ProteinsPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein AggregatesProtein FoldingRed Fluorescent ProteinSaccharomyces cerevisiaeenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsLuminescent ProteinsPeptide Termination FactorsPrion ProteinsProtein AggregatesRed Fluorescent ProteinSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSUP35 protein, S cerevisiaeViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID30664652
PMCPMC6341119
OpenAlexW2910509411

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