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ReviewViruses2026

Preserving the Poly(A) Tail: Strategies Viruses Use to 'CYA' (Cover Your A's).

Jeffrey Wilusz

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Review in Viruses, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jeffrey WiluszDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8535-3435

Funding

National Institute of Health R21AI158335
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The poly(A) tail on viral mRNAs plays an important role in gene expression, given the role of the 3' mRNA tail in mRNA stability and translation. Viruses have developed several strategies to maintain the integrity of their poly(A) tails. These include attracting stabilizing proteins through elements in the 3' untranslated regions of their mRNA, remodeling their poly(A) tails using terminal nucleotidyl transferases, and blocking deadenylase access to the terminal 3' end of their poly(A) tails using protein-protein interactions or through triple helical RNA structures. Collectively, the presence of these multiple strategies illustrates the vital overall need for viruses to maintain and preserve their poly(A) tails, highlighting a potential avenue for broad-spectrum antiviral development. In addition, poly(A) tail preservation strategies used by viruses may also be applied to RNA vaccines and therapeutics.

Indexed as

Poly ARNA, MessengerRNA, ViralViruses3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsPolyadenylationRNA Stability3' Untranslated RegionsPoly ARNA, MessengerRNA, Viraldeadenylationpolyadenylationterminal nucleotidyl transferasesviral mRNA stability

Identifiers

PMID41600854
PMCPMC12846552

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