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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2020

Coronavirus Interplay With Lipid Rafts and Autophagy Unveils Promising Therapeutic Targets.

Katia Fecchi, Simona Anticoli, Daniela Peruzzu, Elisabetta Iessi, Maria Cristina Gagliardi, Paola Matarrese, Anna Ruggieri

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
49citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katia FecchiReference Center for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Simona AnticoliReference Center for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Daniela PeruzzuReference Center for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Elisabetta IessiReference Center for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Maria Cristina GagliardiReference Center for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Paola MatarreseReference Center for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Anna RuggieriReference Center for Gender Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Istituto Superiore di Sanità · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronaviruses are enveloped, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses that can infect animal and human hosts. The infection induces mild or sometimes severe acute respiratory diseases. Nowadays, the appearance of a new, highly pathogenic and lethal coronavirus variant, SARS-CoV-2, responsible for a pandemic (COVID-19), represents a global problem for human health. Unfortunately, only limited approaches are available to treat coronavirus infections and a vaccine against this new coronavirus variant is not yet available. The plasma membrane microdomain lipid rafts have been found by researchers to be involved in the replication cycle of numerous viruses, including coronaviruses. Indeed, some pathogen recognition receptors for coronaviruses as for other viruses cluster into lipid rafts, and it is therefore conceivable that the first contact between virus and host cells occurs into these specialized regions, representing a port of cell entry for viruses. Recent data highlighted the peculiar pro-viral or anti-viral role played by autophagy in the host immune responses to viral infections. Coronaviruses, like other viruses, were reported to be able to exploit the autophagic machinery to increase their replication or to inhibit the degradation of viral products. Agents known to disrupt lipid rafts, such as metil-β-cyclodextrins or statins, as well as autophagy inhibitor agents, were shown to have an anti-viral role. In this review, we briefly describe the involvement of lipid rafts and autophagy in coronavirus infection and replication. We also hint how lipid rafts and autophagy may represent a potential therapeutic target to be investigated for the treatment of coronavirus infections.

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autophagycoronavirusdrugslipid raftsSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32849425
PMCPMC7431668
OpenAlexW3048642124

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