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ReviewViruses2021

Virus-Encoded Complement Regulators: Current Status.

Anwesha Sinha, Anup Kumar Singh, Trupti Satish Kadni, Jayati Mullick, Arvind Sahu

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Review in Viruses, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Anwesha SinhaComplement Biology Laboratory, National Centre for Cell Science, S. P. Pune University Campus, Ganeskhind, Pune 411007, India.
Anup Kumar SinghComplement Biology Laboratory, National Centre for Cell Science, S. P. Pune University Campus, Ganeskhind, Pune 411007, India.
Trupti Satish KadniComplement Biology Laboratory, National Centre for Cell Science, S. P. Pune University Campus, Ganeskhind, Pune 411007, India.
Jayati MullickPolio Virology Group, Microbial Containment Complex, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune 411021, India.
Arvind SahuComplement Biology Laboratory, National Centre for Cell Science, S. P. Pune University Campus, Ganeskhind, Pune 411007, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Viruses require a host for replication and survival and hence are subjected to host immunological pressures. The complement system, a crucial first response of the host immune system, is effective in targeting viruses and virus-infected cells, and boosting the antiviral innate and acquired immune responses. Thus, the system imposes a strong selection pressure on viruses. Consequently, viruses have evolved multiple countermeasures against host complement. A major mechanism employed by viruses to subvert the complement system is encoding proteins that target complement. Since viruses have limited genome size, most of these proteins are multifunctional in nature. In this review, we provide up to date information on the structure and complement regulatory functions of various viral proteins.

Indexed as

AnimalsComplement ActivationComplement System ProteinsHumansImmune EvasionImmunity, InnateViral ProteinsVirus DiseasesVirusesComplement System ProteinsViral ProteinsCD59complementHerpesvirusinnate immunitypathogenesisPoxvirusRCAviral immune evasionviral RCA

Identifiers

PMID33573085
PMCPMC7912105

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