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ArticleJournal of virology2020

Nucleocapsid Protein Recruitment to Replication-Transcription Complexes Plays a Crucial Role in Coronaviral Life Cycle.

Yingying Cong, Mustafa Ulasli, Hein Schepers, Mario Mauthe, Philip V'kovski, Franziska Kriegenburg, Volker Thiel, Cornelis A M de Haan, Fulvio Reggiori

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Article in Journal of virology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 226 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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226citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

226 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 411 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Yingying CongDepartment of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Mustafa UlasliDepartment of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Hein SchepersDepartment of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Mario MautheDepartment of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Philip V'kovskiInstitute of Virology and Immunology, Bern, Switzerland.
Franziska KriegenburgDepartment of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Volker ThielInstitute of Virology and Immunology, Bern, Switzerland.
Cornelis A M de HaanVirology Division, Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Fulvio ReggioriDepartment of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands f.m.reggiori@umcg.nl.ORCID 0000-0003-2652-2686
University Medical Center Groningen · NLUniversity of Bern · CHUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLUtrecht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus (CoV) nucleocapsid (N) proteins are key for incorporating genomic RNA into progeny viral particles. In infected cells, N proteins are present at the replication-transcription complexes (RTCs), the sites of CoV RNA synthesis. It has been shown that N proteins are important for viral replication and that the one of mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), a commonly used model CoV, interacts with nonstructural protein 3 (nsp3), a component of the RTCs. These two aspects of the CoV life cycle, however, have not been linked. We found that the MHV N protein binds exclusively to nsp3 and not other RTC components by using a systematic yeast two-hybrid approach, and we identified two distinct regions in the N protein that redundantly mediate this interaction. A selective N protein variant carrying point mutations in these two regions fails to bind nsp3

Indexed as

AnimalsCell LineHumansMiceMurine hepatitis virusNucleocapsid ProteinsRNA, ViralTranscription, GeneticViral Nonstructural ProteinsVirus Replicationnucleocapsid protein, Hepatitis virusNucleocapsid ProteinsRNA, ViralViral Nonstructural Proteinscoronavirusnucleocapsid N proteinreplication-transcription complexesviral mRNA synthesis

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PMID31776274
PMCPMC6997762
OpenAlexW2989769422

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