Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34372596›Full record

ReviewViruses2021

Human Papillomaviruses Target the DNA Damage Repair and Innate Immune Response Pathways to Allow for Persistent Infection.

Elona Gusho, Laimonis Laimins

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Viruses, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Differential roles of type I topoisomerases in regulating HPV pathogenesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Targeting innate immunity to overcome immune evasion in HPV-associated cancers.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  13. Regulatory Effect ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elona GushoDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4000-8202
Laimonis LaiminsDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6314-623X
Northwestern University · US

Funding

REGULATION OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS GENE EXPRESSIONR01CA059655 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI LAIMINS, LAIMONIS A. · 1993 to 2023
$7.4M
Renewal: HPV and the DNA Damage ResponseR01CA142861 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Laimonis A. LAIMINS · 2010 to 2026
$5.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA059655NCI NIH HHS R01 CA142861NCI NIH HHS RO1CA059655NCI NIH HHS RO1 CA 142861
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Persistent infection with high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) is the major risk factor associated with development of anogenital and oropharyngeal cancers. Initial infection by HPVs occurs into basal epithelial cells where viral genomes are established as nuclear episomes and persist until cleared by the immune response. Productive replication or amplification occurs upon differentiation and is dependent upon activation of the ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM), ataxia telangiectasia and RAD3-related (ATR) DNA damage repair (DDR) pathways. In addition to activating DDR pathways, HPVs must escape innate immune surveillance mechanisms by antagonizing sensors, adaptors, interferons and antiviral gene expression. Both DDR and innate immune pathways are key host mechanisms that crosstalk with each other to maintain homeostasis of cells persistently infected with HPVs. Interestingly, it is still not fully understood why some HPV infections get cleared while others do not. Targeting of these two processes with antiviral therapies may provide opportunities for treatment of cancers caused by high-risk HPVs.

Indexed as

DNA DamageDNA RepairImmunity, InnateAlphapapillomavirusCell DifferentiationGenome, ViralHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansVirus ReplicationDAMPsDNA damageepithelial differentiationHPVsinnate immunity

Identifiers

PMID34372596
PMCPMC8310235
OpenAlexW3186035160

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