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ReviewTrends in microbiology2020

Species-Specific Host-Virus Interactions: Implications for Viral Host Range and Virulence.

Stefan Rothenburg, Greg Brennan

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In one paragraph

Review in Trends in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
89citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

89 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

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29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stefan RothenburgSchool of Medicine, University of California Davis, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: rothenburg@ucdavis.edu.
Greg BrennanSchool of Medicine, University of California Davis, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
University of California, Davis · USUniversity of California Davis Medical Center · US

Funding

Importance of Species-Specific Interactions of PKR with Poxvirus Inhibitors for Virus Replication and Host RangeR01AI114851 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI ROTHENBURG, STEFAN · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
Molecular and evolutionary mechanisms of poxviral adaptation to new speciesR21AI135257 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI BRENNAN, GREGORY JASON, KITZMAN, JACOB OTTO · 2019 to 2020
$446k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI114851NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI135257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A growing number of studies indicate that host species-specific and virus strain-specific interactions of viral molecules with the host innate immune system play a pivotal role in determining virus host range and virulence. Because interacting proteins are likely constrained in their evolution, mutations that are selected to improve virus replication in one species may, by chance, alter the ability of a viral antagonist to inhibit immune responses in hosts the virus has not yet encountered. Based on recent findings of host-species interactions of poxvirus, herpesvirus, and influenza virus proteins, we propose a model for viral fitness and host range which considers the full interactome between a specific host species and a virus, resulting from the combination of all interactions, positive and negative, that influence whether a virus can productively infect a cell and cause disease in different hosts.

Indexed as

AnimalsDNA VirusesEvolution, MolecularHost-Pathogen InteractionsHost SpecificityHumansInfluenza, HumanViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral ProteinsVirulenceVirus ReplicationViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral Proteinsherpesvirus, influenza virushost–pathogen interactionsPKRpoxvirusviral fitness interactome

Identifiers

PMID31597598
PMCPMC6925338
OpenAlexW2978726586

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