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ArticleCancer medicine2020

Virome assembly and annotation in brain tissue based on next-generation sequencing.

Zihao Yuan, Xiaohua Ye, Lisha Zhu, Ningyan Zhang, Zhiqiang An, W Jim Zheng

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zihao YuanSchool of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Xiaohua YeTexas Therapeutics Institute, Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Lisha ZhuSchool of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Ningyan ZhangTexas Therapeutics Institute, Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Zhiqiang AnTexas Therapeutics Institute, Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
W Jim ZhengSchool of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7411-6047
The University of Texas Health Science Center · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · US

Funding

Convalescent Plasma to Limit Coronavirus Associated ComplicationsUL1TR003167 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI KARP, DANIEL D, MCPHERSON, DAVID D · 2019 to 2023
$45.3M
Finding Combinatorial Drug Repositioning Therapy For Alzheimer'S Disease And Related DementiasR01AG066749 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI JIANG, XIAOQIAN, ZHENG, WENJIN JIM · 2020 to 2024
$4.4M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR003167NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066749
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is one of the deadliest tumors. It has been speculated that virus plays a role in GBM but the evidences are controversy. Published researches are mainly limited to studies on the presence of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in GBM. No comprehensive assessment of the brain virome, the collection of viral material in the brain, based on recently sequenced data has been performed. Here, we characterized the virome from 111 GBM samples and 57 normal brain samples from eight projects in the SRA database by a tested and comprehensive assembly approach. The annotation of the assembled contigs showed that most viral sequences in the brain belong to the viral family Retroviridae. In some GBM samples, we also detected full genome sequence of a novel picornavirus recently discovered in invertebrates. Unlike previous reports, our study did not detect herpes virus such as HCMV in GBM from the data we used. However, some contigs that cannot be annotated with any known genes exhibited antibody epitopes in their sequences. These findings provide several avenues for potential cancer therapy: the newly discovered picornavirus could be a starting point to engineer novel oncolytic virus; and the exhibited antibody epitopes could be a source to explore potential drug targets for immune cancer therapy. By characterizing the virosphere in GBM and normal brain at a global level, the results from this study strengthen the link between GBM and viral infection which warrants the further investigation.

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High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMetagenomicsBrainBrain NeoplasmsCase-Control StudiesContig MappingDatabases, Nucleic AcidGlioblastomaHumansPicornaviridaeRetroviridaeRNA-SeqRNA, ViralViromeRNA, ViralassemblyGBMmetagenomics.virosphere

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PMID32738030
PMCPMC7520322
OpenAlexW3046232942

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