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ReviewJournal of medical virology2021

Coronavirus genomic nsp14-ExoN, structure, role, mechanism, and potential application as a drug target.

Mohammed Tahir

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of medical virology, 2021. 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
11.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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, 86 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mohammed TahirDepartment of Biology, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimanyah, Kurdistan, Iraq.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1588-469X
University of Sulaimani · IQ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), causing a global pandemic with devastating effects on healthcare and social-economic systems, has no special antiviral therapies available for human coronaviruses (CoVs). The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) possesses a nonstructural protein (nsp14), with amino-terminal domain coding for proofreading exoribonuclease (ExoN) that is required for high-fidelity replication. The ability of CoVs during genome replication and transcription to proofread and exclude mismatched nucleotides has long hindered the development of anti-CoV drugs. The resistance of SARS-CoV-2 to antivirals, especially nucleoside analogs (NAs), shows the need to identify new CoV inhibition targets. Therefore, this review highlights the importance of nsp14-ExoN as a target for inhibition. Also, nucleoside analogs could be used in combination with existing anti-CoV therapeutics to target the proofreading mechanism.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentAntiviral AgentsExoribonucleasesGenome, ViralHumansMethyltransferasesRNA Processing, Post-TranscriptionalRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Viral Nonstructural ProteinsVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsExoribonucleasesMethyltransferasesNSP14 protein, SARS-CoV-2RNA, ViralViral Nonstructural Proteinscoronavirusexoribonucleasenonstructural protein 14proofreadingRNA recombination

Identifiers

PMID33837972
PMCPMC8250946
OpenAlexW3147842526

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