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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Methylation of viral mRNA cap structures by PCIF1 attenuates the antiviral activity of interferon-β.

Michael A Tartell, Konstantinos Boulias, Ella L Brunsting, Louis-Marie Bloyet, Eric Lieberman Greer, Sean P J Whelan

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Trinucleotide mRNA Cap AnalogueJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2024
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  16. RNA modification mEpigenetics · 2023
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  18. Biological roles of adenine methylation in RNA.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2023
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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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Michael A TartellDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.ORCID 0000-0002-4518-4187
Konstantinos BouliasDepartment of Pediatrics, Initiative for RNA Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Ella L BrunstingDivision of Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0001-7758-898X
Louis-Marie BloyetDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.ORCID 0000-0002-5648-3190
Eric Lieberman GreerDepartment of Pediatrics, Initiative for RNA Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; spjwhelan@wustl.edu eric.greer@childrens.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7501-7371
Sean P J WhelanDepartment of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110; spjwhelan@wustl.edu eric.greer@childrens.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1564-8590
Boston Children's Hospital · USWashington University in St. Louis · USHarvard University · US

Funding

MOLECULAR BASIS OF VIRAL INFECTIVITYT32AI007245 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI Aaron Gregory Schmidt · 1985 to 2026
$11.3M
RNA Processing in Non-Segmented Minus-Strand RNA VirusesR37AI059371 · NIAID · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WHELAN, SEAN PJ · 2015 to 2024
$5.4M
RNA Processing in Non-Segmented Minus-Strand RNA VirusesR01AI059371 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WHELAN, SEAN PJ · 2005 to 2015
$3.9M
Characterization of DNA N6-methyl adenine and its role in epigenetic memoryDP2AG055947 · NIA · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI GREER, ERIC LIEBERMAN · 2016 to 2021
$3.2M
Base-resolution sequencing of 6mA in eukaryotic DNAR21HG010066 · NHGRI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI GREER, ERIC LIEBERMAN · 2018 to 2019
$487k
A Non-Canonical Translation Mechanism for Vesicular Stomatitis VirusF31AI138448 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI TARTELL, MICHAEL ARMEN · 2018 to 2020
$109k
NHGRI NIH HHS R21 HG010066NIAID NIH HHS F31 AI138448NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI059371NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI059371NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007245NIA NIH HHS DP2 AG055947
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interferons induce cell-intrinsic responses associated with resistance to viral infection. To overcome the suppressive action of interferons and their effectors, viruses have evolved diverse mechanisms. Using vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), we report that the host cell N6-adenosine messenger RNA (mRNA) cap methylase, phosphorylated C-terminal domain interacting factor 1 (PCIF1), attenuates the antiviral response. We employed cell-based and in vitro biochemical assays to demonstrate that PCIF1 efficiently modifies VSV mRNA cap structures to m

Indexed as

Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansInterferon-betaMethylationNuclear ProteinsRNA CapsRNA, MessengerRNA StabilityRNA, ViralVesicular StomatitisVesicular stomatitis Indiana virusVirus ReplicationAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingInterferon-betaNuclear ProteinsPCIF1 protein, humanRNA CapsRNA, MessengerRNA, Viralhost–pathogen interactionsinnate immunitynonsegmented negative-sense RNA virusrhabdovirusRNA modifications

Identifiers

PMID34266951
PMCPMC8307471
OpenAlexW3178106917

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