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ArticlemBio2021

Influenza A Virus Defective Viral Genomes Are Inefficiently Packaged into Virions Relative to Wild-Type Genomic RNAs.

Fadi G Alnaji, William K Reiser, Joel Rivera-Cardona, Aartjan J W Te Velthuis, Christopher B Brooke

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Article in mBio, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fadi G AlnajiDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigngrid.35403.31, Champaign, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2893-9832
William K ReiserDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigngrid.35403.31, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Joel Rivera-CardonaDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigngrid.35403.31, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Aartjan J W Te VelthuisLewis Thomas Laboratory, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton Universitygrid.16750.35, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5129-3953
Christopher B BrookeDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigngrid.35403.31, Champaign, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6815-1193
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USPrinceton University · US

Funding

The effects of influenza virus genomic heterogeneity on replication dynamics and the host responseR01AI139246 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI BROOKE, CHRISTOPHER BYRON · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI139246Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 206579/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deletion-containing viral genomes (DelVGs) are commonly produced during influenza A virus infection and have been implicated in influencing clinical infection outcomes. Despite their ubiquity, the specific molecular mechanisms that govern DelVG formation and their packaging into defective interfering particles (DIPs) remain poorly understood. Here, we utilized next-generation sequencing to analyze DelVGs that form

Indexed as

Genome, ViralViral Genome PackagingDefective Interfering VirusesHumansInfluenza A virusInfluenza, HumanRNA, ViralVirionVirus ReplicationRNA, Viraldefective interfering particlesgenome packaginginfluenzasequencing

Identifiers

PMID34809454
PMCPMC8609359
OpenAlexW3215850153

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