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ReviewGene therapy2021

Gene editing and RNAi approaches for COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics.

Burak Berber, Cihan Aydin, Fatih Kocabas, Gulen Guney-Esken, Kaan Yilancioglu, Medine Karadag-Alpaslan, Mehmet Caliseki, Melek Yuce, Sevda Demir, Cihan Tastan

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Review in Gene therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 49 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

10 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Burak BerberDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, Eskisehir Technical University, Eskisehir, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5136-5323
Cihan AydinDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0560-1895
Fatih KocabasDepartment of Genetics and Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Gulen Guney-EskenDepartment of Genetics and Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Kaan YilanciogluInstitute of Addiction and Forensic Sciences, Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Medine Karadag-AlpaslanDepartment of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9115-275X
Mehmet CalisekiDepartment of Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering, Graduate School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-3962
Melek YuceCenter for Stem Cell Research, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey.
Sevda DemirDepartment of Genetics and Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0427-3519
Cihan TastanTransgenic Cell Technologies and Epigenetics Application and Research Center (TRGENMER), Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey. cihantastan.ct@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4173-6634
Yeditepe University · TROndokuz Mayıs University · TRÜsküdar University · TREskisehir Technical University · TRIstanbul Medeniyet University · TRSabancı Üniversitesi · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) is a highly infectious acute respiratory disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Related Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) (Prec Clin Med 2020;3:9-13, Lancet 2020;395:497-506, N. Engl J Med 2020a;382:1199-207, Nature 2020;579:270-3). SARS-CoV-2 surveillance is essential to controlling widespread transmission. However, there are several challenges associated with the diagnostic of the COVID-19 during the current outbreak (Liu and Li (2019), Nature 2020;579:265-9, N. Engl J Med 2020;382:727-33). Firstly, the high number of cases overwhelms diagnostic test capacity and proposes the need for a rapid solution for sample processing (Science 2018;360:444-8). Secondly, SARS-CoV-2 is closely related to other important coronavirus species and subspecies, so detection assays can give false-positive results if they are not efficiently specific to SARS-CoV-2. Thirdly, patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection sometimes have a different respiratory viral infection or co-infections with SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses (MedRxiv 2020a;1-18). Confirmation of the COVID-19 is performed mainly by virus isolation followed by RT-PCR and sequencing (N. Engl J Med 2020;382:727-33, MedRxiv 2020a, Turkish J Biol 2020;44:192-202). The emergence and outbreak of the novel coronavirus highlighted the urgent need for new therapeutic technologies that are fast, precise, stable, easy to manufacture, and target-specific for surveillance and treatment. Molecular biology tools that include gene-editing approaches such as CRISPR-Cas12/13-based SHERLOCK, DETECTR, CARVER and PAC-MAN, antisense oligonucleotides, antisense peptide nucleic acids, ribozymes, aptamers, and RNAi silencing approaches produced with cutting-edge scientific advances compared to conventional diagnostic or treatment methods could be vital in COVID-19 and other future outbreaks. Thus, in this review, we will discuss potent the molecular biology approaches that can revolutionize diagnostic of viral infections and therapies to fight COVID-19 in a highly specific, stable, and efficient way.

Indexed as

COVID-19Gene EditingRNA InterferenceCRISPR-Cas SystemsHumansOligonucleotides, AntisenseOligonucleotides, Antisense

Identifiers

PMID33318646
PMCPMC7734466
OpenAlexW3112698301

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Registered trials

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