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ArticleJournal of virology2020

The African Swine Fever Virus Transcriptome.

Gwenny Cackett, Dorota Matelska, Michal Sýkora, Raquel Portugal, Michal Malecki, Jürg Bähler, Linda Dixon, Finn Werner

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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 125 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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125citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
28.1field-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

125 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 166 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Gwenny CackettInstitute for Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7086-8831
Dorota MatelskaInstitute for Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Michal SýkoraInstitute for Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Raquel PortugalPirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Michal MaleckiInstitute for Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Jürg BählerInstitute for Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Linda DixonPirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom linda.dixon@pirbright.ac.uk f.werner@ucl.ac.uk.
Finn WernerInstitute for Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom linda.dixon@pirbright.ac.uk f.werner@ucl.ac.uk.
Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology · GBThe Pirbright Institute · GBCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Genetics · CZ

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007034Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/0007030Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/0007031Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT 095598/Z/11/ZWellcome Trust WT 108877/B/15/ZWellcome Trust WT 207446/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes hemorrhagic fever in domestic pigs, presenting the biggest global threat to animal farming in recorded history. Despite the importance of ASFV, little is known about the mechanisms and regulation of ASFV transcription. Using RNA sequencing methods, we have determined total RNA abundance, transcription start sites, and transcription termination sites at single-nucleotide resolution. This allowed us to characterize DNA consensus motifs of early and late ASFV core promoters, as well as a polythymidylate sequence determinant for transcription termination. Our results demonstrate that ASFV utilizes alternative transcription start sites between early and late stages of infection and that ASFV RNA polymerase (RNAP) undergoes promoter-proximal transcript slippage at 5' ends of transcription units, adding quasitemplated AU- and AUAU-5' extensions to mRNAs. Here, we present the first much-needed genome-wide transcriptome study that provides unique insight into ASFV transcription and serves as a resource to aid future functional analyses of ASFV genes which are essential to combat this devastating disease.

Indexed as

African Swine FeverAfrican Swine Fever VirusAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsGenome, ViralHemorrhagic Fevers, ViralSus scrofaSwineTranscriptional ActivationTranscription, GeneticTranscription Termination, GeneticTranscriptomeViral ProteinsViral ProteinsAfrican swine fever virusgene expressionNCLDVpromotersRNA polymerasesRNA-seqtranscriptiontranscription start sitevirologyzoonotic infections

Identifiers

PMID32075923
PMCPMC7163114
OpenAlexW3007891197

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