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ArticleMedical hypotheses2020

Ribosomal proteins as a possible tool for blocking SARS-COV 2 virus replication for a potential prospective treatment.

Marian Rofeal, Fady Abd El-Malek

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Article in Medical hypotheses, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Marian RofealDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt.
Fady Abd El-MalekDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Egypt. Electronic address: fadymicro@yahoo.com.
Alexandria University · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is caused by SARS-COV2 and has resulted in more than four million cases globally and the death cases exceeded 300,000. Normally, a range of surviving and propagating host factors must be employed for the completion of the infectious process including RPs. Viral protein biosynthesis involves the interaction of numerous RPs with viral mRNA, proteins which are necessary for viruses replication regulation and infection inside the host cells. Most of these interactions are crucial for virus activation and accumulation. However, only small percentage of these proteins is specifically responsible for host cells protection by triggering the immune pathway against virus. This research proposes RPs extracted from bacillus sp. and yeast as new forum for the advancement of antiviral therapy. Hitherto, antiviral therapy with RPs-involving viral infection has not been widely investigated as critical targets. Also, exploring antiviral strategy based on RPs could be a promising guide for more potential therapeutics.

Indexed as

Models, BiologicalAntiviral AgentsBacterial ProteinsBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentFungal ProteinsHost Microbial InteractionsHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRibosomal ProteinsSARS-CoV-2Virus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsBacterial ProteinsFungal ProteinsRibosomal ProteinsAntiviralCoronavirusRibosomal proteinsSARS-COV 2Viral translation

Identifiers

PMID32502901
PMCPMC7834321
OpenAlexW3029301376

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