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ReviewViruses2019

Packaging of Genomic RNA in Positive-Sense Single-Stranded RNA Viruses: A Complex Story.

Mauricio Comas-Garcia

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Review in Viruses, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
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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

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Measuring the selective packaging of RNA molecules by viral coat proteins in cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  9. Safety concern of recombination between self-amplifying mRNA vaccines and viruses is mitigated in vivo.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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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

1 author.

Mauricio Comas-GarciaResearch Center for Health Sciences and Biomedicine (CICSaB), Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP), Av. Sierra Leona 550 Lomas 2da Seccion, 72810 San Luis Potosi, Mexico. mauricio.comas@uaslp.mx.ORCID 0000-0002-7733-5138

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The packaging of genomic RNA in positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses is a key part of the viral infectious cycle, yet this step is not fully understood. Unlike double-stranded DNA and RNA viruses, this process is coupled with nucleocapsid assembly. The specificity of RNA packaging depends on multiple factors: (i) one or more packaging signals, (ii) RNA replication, (iii) translation, (iv) viral factories, and (v) the physical properties of the RNA. The relative contribution of each of these factors to packaging specificity is different for every virus. In vitro and in vivo data show that there are different packaging mechanisms that control selective packaging of the genomic RNA during nucleocapsid assembly. The goals of this article are to explain some of the key experiments that support the contribution of these factors to packaging selectivity and to draw a general scenario that could help us move towards a better understanding of this step of the viral infectious cycle.

Indexed as

Genome, ViralCapsid ProteinsNucleocapsidRNA, ViralRNA VirusesVirionVirus AssemblyCapsid ProteinsRNA, Viralpackaging signalsRNA packagingRNA replication(+)ssRNA virusesvirion assembly

Identifiers

PMID30871184
PMCPMC6466141

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