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SynthesisJournal of virology2024

Systematic review and meta-analysis of genome-wide pooled CRISPR screens to identify host factors involved in influenza A virus infection.

Annabel Maes, Alexander Botzki, Janick Mathys, Francis Impens, Xavier Saelens

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Synthesis in Journal of virology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Annabel MaesVIB Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-0773-6032
Alexander BotzkiVIB Technology Training, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6691-4233
Janick MathysVIB Technology Training, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.
Francis ImpensVIB Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-2886-9616
Xavier SaelensVIB Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-3861-6965
Ghent University · BEJanssen (Belgium) · BE

Funding

Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship Agency Baekeland HBC.2019.2153
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The host-virus interactome is increasingly recognized as an important research field to discover new therapeutic targets to treat influenza. Multiple pooled genome-wide CRISPR-Cas screens have been reported to identify new pro- and antiviral host factors of the influenza A virus. However, at present, a comprehensive summary of the results is lacking. We performed a systematic review of all reported CRISPR studies in this field in combination with a meta-analysis using the algorithm of meta-analysis by information content (MAIC). Two ranked gene lists were generated based on evidence in 15 proviral and 4 antiviral screens. Enriched pathways in the proviral MAIC results were compared to those of a prior array-based RNA interference (RNAi) meta-analysis. The top 50 proviral MAIC list contained genes whose role requires further elucidation, such as the endosomal ion channel IMPORTANCE: Viruses rely on host factors for their replication, whereas the host cell has evolved virus restriction factors. These factors represent potential targets for host-oriented antiviral therapies. Multiple pooled genome-wide CRISPR-Cas screens have been reported to identify pro- and antiviral host factors in the context of influenza virus infection. We performed a comprehensive analysis of the outcome of these screens based on the publicly available gene lists, using the recently developed algorithm meta-analysis by information content (MAIC). MAIC allows the systematic integration of ranked and unranked gene lists into a final ranked gene list. This approach highlighted poorly characterized host factors and pathways with evidence from multiple screens, such as the vesicle docking and lipid metabolism pathways, which merit further exploration.

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsHost-Pathogen InteractionsInfluenza A virusInfluenza, HumanClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsHumansRNA InterferenceVirus ReplicationCRISPR screeninfluenzameta-analysisvirus-host interactions

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PMID38567969
PMCPMC11257101
OpenAlexW4393855052

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