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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

The Role of Coronavirus RNA-Processing Enzymes in Innate Immune Evasion.

Georgia Mandilara, Marianna A Koutsi, Marios Agelopoulos, Georgios Sourvinos, Apostolos Beloukas, Theodoros Rampias

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. 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
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Georgia MandilaraNational Reference Centre for Salmonella and Shigella, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, 11521 Athens, Greece.
Marianna A KoutsiBiomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Basic Research Center, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9182-5555
Marios AgelopoulosBiomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Basic Research Center, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Georgios SourvinosLaboratory of Clinical Virology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71500 Heraklion, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9297-4288
Apostolos BeloukasDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of West Attica, 12243 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5639-0528
Theodoros RampiasBiomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Basic Research Center, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-5460-5334
Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens · GRUniversity of Crete · GRUniversity of Liverpool · GBUniversity of West Attica · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viral RNA sensing triggers innate antiviral responses in humans by stimulating signaling pathways that include crucial antiviral genes such as interferon. RNA viruses have evolved strategies to inhibit or escape these mechanisms. Coronaviruses use multiple enzymes to synthesize, modify, and process their genomic RNA and sub-genomic RNAs. These include Nsp15 and Nsp16, whose respective roles in RNA capping and dsRNA degradation play a crucial role in coronavirus escape from immune surveillance. Evolutionary studies on coronaviruses demonstrate that genome expansion in Nidoviruses was promoted by the emergence of Nsp14-ExoN activity and led to the acquisition of Nsp15- and Nsp16-RNA-processing activities. In this review, we discuss the main RNA-sensing mechanisms in humans as well as recent structural, functional, and evolutionary insights into coronavirus Nsp15 and Nsp16 with a view to potential antiviral strategies.

Indexed as

coronavirusimmune evasioninnate immunitySARS-CoV-2viral RNA sensing

Identifiers

PMID34204549
PMCPMC8235370
OpenAlexW3172180678

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