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ArticlemBio2019

Antagonism of dsRNA-Induced Innate Immune Pathways by NS4a and NS4b Accessory Proteins during MERS Coronavirus Infection.

Courtney E Comar, Stephen A Goldstein, Yize Li, Boyd Yount, Ralph S Baric, Susan R Weiss

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Article in mBio, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers.

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91citing papers in PubMed
12.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

91 citing papers in PubMed, 117 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Courtney E Comar *Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Stephen A Goldstein *Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Yize LiDepartment of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Boyd YountDepartment of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Ralph S BaricDepartment of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Susan R WeissDepartment of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA weisssr@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8155-4528
University of Pennsylvania · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Translational CoreU19AI109761 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI LIPKIN, W. IAN · 2014 to 2018
$32.6M
Mechanisms of MERS-CoV Entry, Cross-species Transmission and PathogenesisR01AI110700 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BARIC, RALPH S, LI, FANG · 2015 to 2024
$7.4M
TRAINING IN VIROLOGYT32AI007324 · NIAID · WISTAR INSTITUTE · PI Paul Bates, Matthew D. Weitzman · 1989 to 2026
$6.8M
MERS coronavirus: antagonism of double-stranded RNA induced host response by accessory proteinsR01AI140442 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Susan R Weiss · 2018 to 2026
$5.1M
Control of coronavirus pathogenesis by antagonism of RNase LR21AI114920 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WEISS, SUSAN R · 2015 to 2016
$454k
Investigating MERS-CoV NS4b as a modulator of the host antiviral response in the nucleusF31AI126673 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GOLDSTEIN, STEPHEN · 2017 to 2018
$68k
NIAID NIH HHS F31 AI126673NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI110700NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI140442NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI114920NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007324NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI109761
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first identified in 2012 as a novel etiological agent of severe respiratory disease in humans. As during infection by other viruses, host sensing of viral double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) induces several antiviral pathways. These include interferon (IFN), oligoadenylate synthetase (OAS)-RNase L, and protein kinase R (PKR). Coronaviruses, including MERS-CoV, potently suppress the activation of these pathways, inducing only modest host responses. Our study describes the functions of two accessory proteins unique to MERS-CoV and related viruses, NS4a and NS4b, during infection in human airway epithelium-derived A549 cells. NS4a has been previously characterized as a dsRNA binding protein, while NS4b is a 2',5'-phosphodiesterase with structural and enzymatic similarity to NS2 encoded by mouse hepatitis virus (MHV). We found that deletion of NS4a results in increased interferon lambda (

Indexed as

Host-Pathogen InteractionsImmune EvasionA549 CellsEpithelial CellsGene DeletionHumansImmunity, InnateMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome CoronavirusMutationRNA, Double-StrandedRNA, ViralViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral Regulatory and Accessory ProteinsVirus ReplicationRNA, Double-StrandedRNA, ViralViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral Regulatory and Accessory Proteinscoronavirusinterferon antagonistMERS-CoVviral accessory proteins

Identifiers

PMID30914508
PMCPMC6437052
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