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ArticleJournal of virology2019

Human Cytomegalovirus pUL37x1 Is Important for Remodeling of Host Lipid Metabolism.

Yuecheng Xi, Samuel Harwood, Lisa M Wise, John G Purdy

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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 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuecheng XiDepartment of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Samuel HarwoodDepartment of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Lisa M WiseDepartment of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
John G PurdyDepartment of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA jgpurdy@email.arizona.edu.
University of Arizona · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) replication requires host metabolism. Infection alters the activity in multiple metabolic pathways, including increasing fatty acid elongation and lipid synthesis. The virus-host interactions regulating the metabolic changes associated with replication are essential for infection. While multiple host factors, including kinases and transcription factors, important for metabolic changes that occur following HCMV infection have been identified, little is known about the viral factors required to alter metabolism. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that pUL37x1 is important for the metabolic remodeling that is necessary for HCMV replication using a combination of metabolomics, lipidomics, and metabolic tracers to measure fatty acid elongation. We observed that fibroblast cells infected with wild-type (WT) HCMV had levels of metabolites similar to those in cells infected with a mutant virus lacking the UL37x1 gene,

Indexed as

Lipid MetabolismCell LineCytomegalovirusCytomegalovirus InfectionseIF-2 KinaseFatty Acid ElongasesFatty AcidsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmediate-Early ProteinsLipidomicsMetabolomeMutationPhospholipidsVirus ReplicationEIF2AK3 protein, humaneIF-2 KinaseELOVL7 protein, humanFatty Acid ElongasesFatty AcidsImmediate-Early ProteinsPhospholipidsUL37 protein, Human herpesvirus 5cytomegalovirushuman herpesviruseslipidomicsmetabolismmetabolomics

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PMID31391267
PMCPMC6803270
OpenAlexW2965152913

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