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ArticleImmunologic research2009

Structure and function of murine cytomegalovirus MHC-I-like molecules: how the virus turned the host defense to its advantage.

Janet Mans, Li Zhi, Maria Jamela R Revilleza, Lee Smith, Alec Redwood, Kannan Natarajan, David H Margulies

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Article in Immunologic research, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Janet MansMolecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 10; Room 11N311, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-1892, USA.
Li Zhi
Maria Jamela R Revilleza
Lee Smith
Alec Redwood
Kannan Natarajan
David H Margulies
National Institutes of Health · USNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · USUniversity of Western Australia · AU

Funding

Structure and Function of Viral ImmunoevasinsZIAAI001028 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI MARGULIES, DAVID · 2009 to 2025
$7.9M
Structure and Function of Viral ImmunoevasinsZ01AI001028 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI MARGULIES, DAVID · 2008 to 2008
$463k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 AI001028Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI001028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mouse cytomegalovirus (CMV), a beta-herpesvirus, exploits its large (~230 kb) double-stranded DNA genome for both essential and non-essential functions. Among the non-essential functions are those that offer the virus a selective advantage in eluding both the innate and adaptive immune responses of the host. Several non-essential genes of MCMV are thought to encode MHC-I-like genes and to function as immunoevasins. To understand further the evolution and function of these viral MHC-I (MHC-Iv) molecules, X-ray structures of several of them have been determined, not only confirming the overall MHC-I-like structure, but also elucidating features unique to this family. Future efforts promise to clarify the nature of the molecular ligands of these molecules, their evolution in the context of the adapting immune response of the murine host, and by analogy the evolution of the host response to human CMV as well.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsCrystallography, X-RayHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansMiceMolecular Sequence DataMuromegalovirusRatsSequence AlignmentViral ProteinsHistocompatibility Antigens Class IViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID19011767
PMCPMC2785082
OpenAlexW2074321066

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