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ReviewSignal transduction and targeted therapy2020

Stress proteins: the biological functions in virus infection, present and challenges for target-based antiviral drug development.

Qianya Wan, Dan Song, Huangcan Li, Ming-Liang He

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Review in Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
88citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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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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

88 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 159 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Qianya Wan *Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Dan Song *Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Huangcan LiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Ming-Liang HeDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. mlhe7788@gmail.com.
City University of Hong Kong · HKCity University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 81671995
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stress proteins (SPs) including heat-shock proteins (HSPs), RNA chaperones, and ER associated stress proteins are molecular chaperones essential for cellular homeostasis. The major functions of HSPs include chaperoning misfolded or unfolded polypeptides, protecting cells from toxic stress, and presenting immune and inflammatory cytokines. Regarded as a double-edged sword, HSPs also cooperate with numerous viruses and cancer cells to promote their survival. RNA chaperones are a group of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs), which are essential factors for manipulating both the functions and metabolisms of pre-mRNAs/hnRNAs transcribed by RNA polymerase II. hnRNPs involve in a large number of cellular processes, including chromatin remodelling, transcription regulation, RNP assembly and stabilization, RNA export, virus replication, histone-like nucleoid structuring, and even intracellular immunity. Dysregulation of stress proteins is associated with many human diseases including human cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Parkinson's diseases, Alzheimer disease), stroke and infectious diseases. In this review, we summarized the biologic function of stress proteins, and current progress on their mechanisms related to virus reproduction and diseases caused by virus infections. As SPs also attract a great interest as potential antiviral targets (e.g., COVID-19), we also discuss the present progress and challenges in this area of HSP-based drug development, as well as with compounds already under clinical evaluation.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsBetacoronavirusChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Gene Expression RegulationHeat-Shock ProteinsHeterogeneous-Nuclear RibonucleoproteinsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyPandemicsPneumonia, ViralRNA Polymerase IIRNA PrecursorsSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsHeat-Shock ProteinsHeterogeneous-Nuclear RibonucleoproteinsRNA Polymerase IIRNA Precursors

Identifiers

PMID32661235
PMCPMC7356129
OpenAlexW3041797328

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