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ArticleJournal of virology2019

Single-Cell Virus Sequencing of Influenza Infections That Trigger Innate Immunity.

Alistair B Russell, Elizaveta Elshina, Jacob R Kowalsky, Aartjan J W Te Velthuis, Jesse D Bloom

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Article in Journal of virology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 99 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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99citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
12.6field-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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

99 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 138 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Advances in Single-Cell Sequencing for Infectious Diseases: Progress and Perspectives.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  19. The respiratory tract virome: unravelling the role of viral dark matter in respiratory health and disease.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alistair B RussellBasic Sciences and Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5342-2309
Elizaveta ElshinaDivision of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Jacob R KowalskyBasic Sciences and Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Aartjan J W Te VelthuisDivision of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5129-3953
Jesse D BloomBasic Sciences and Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA jbloom@fredhutch.org.ORCID 0000-0003-1267-3408
Fred Hutch Cancer Center · USUniversity of Cambridge · GBHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

High-throughput experiments to guide influenza vaccine strain selectionR01AI127893 · NIAID · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI BLOOM, JESSE D · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
FHCRC High-Performance Computing ClusterS10OD020069 · OD · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI KOOPERBERG, CHARLES L · 2015 to 2015
$600k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIAID NIH HHS R01 AI127893NIH HHS S10 OD020069Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 206579/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza virus-infected cells vary widely in their expression of viral genes and only occasionally activate innate immunity. Here, we develop a new method to assess how the genetic variation in viral populations contributes to this heterogeneity. We do this by determining the transcriptome and full-length sequences of all viral genes in single cells infected with a nominally "pure" stock of influenza virus. Most cells are infected by virions with defects, some of which increase the frequency of innate-immune activation. These immunostimulatory defects are diverse and include mutations that perturb the function of the viral polymerase protein PB1, large internal deletions in viral genes, and failure to express the virus's interferon antagonist NS1. However, immune activation remains stochastic in cells infected by virions with these defects and occasionally is triggered even by virions that express unmutated copies of all genes. Our work shows that the diverse spectrum of defects in influenza virus populations contributes to-but does not completely explain-the heterogeneity in viral gene expression and immune activation in single infected cells.

Indexed as

Genetic VariationImmunity, InnateInfluenza A Virus, H1N1 SubtypeSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisViral Nonstructural ProteinsA549 CellsHumansINS1 protein, influenza virusViral Nonstructural Proteins10x Chromiumdefective virusheterogeneityinfluenza virusinterferonNS1PacBioPB1single-cell RNA-seq

Identifiers

PMID31068418
PMCPMC6600203
OpenAlexW2953162568

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