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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2020

Antimicrobial Peptides as Potential Antiviral Factors in Insect Antiviral Immune Response.

Min Feng, Shigang Fei, Junming Xia, Vassiliki Labropoulou, Luc Swevers, Jingchen Sun

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 103 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

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Min FengGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Shigang FeiGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Junming XiaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Vassiliki LabropoulouInsect Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Institute of Biosciences and Applications, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens, Greece.
Luc SweversInsect Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Institute of Biosciences and Applications, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens, Greece.
Jingchen SunGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agro-Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
South China Agricultural University · CNInstitute of Biosciences & ApplicationsNational Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos" · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with antiviral activity (antiviral peptides: AVPs) have become a research hotspot and already show immense potential to become pharmaceutically available antiviral drugs. AVPs have exhibited huge potential in inhibiting viruses by targeting various stages of their life cycle. Insects are the most speciose group of animals that inhabit almost all ecosystems and habitats on the land and are a rich source of natural AMPs. However, insect AVP mining, functional research, and drug development are still in their infancy. This review aims to summarize the currently validated insect AVPs, explore potential new insect AVPs and to discuss their possible mechanism of synthesis and action, with a view to providing clues to unravel the mechanisms of insect antiviral immunity and to develop insect AVP-derived antiviral drugs.

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AnimalsAntiviral AgentsComputational BiologyDatabases, FactualHumansImmunityInsectaPore Forming Cytotoxic ProteinsSpecies SpecificityWeb BrowserAntiviral AgentsPore Forming Cytotoxic Proteinsantimicrobial peptidesantiviral drugsantiviral peptidesinsectviruses

Identifiers

PMID32983149
PMCPMC7492552
OpenAlexW3081696709

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