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Christina Scherer, Jack Knowles, Vattipally B Sreenu, Anthony C Fredericks, Janina Fuss, Kevin Maringer, Ana Fernandez-Sesma, Andres Merits, Margus Varjak, Alain Kohl and 1 more

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Article in Viruses, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 22 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

11 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Christina SchererBernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, 20359 Hamburg, Germany.
Jack KnowlesMRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK.
Vattipally B SreenuMRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6673-4697
Anthony C FredericksIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Janina FussInstitute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), Kiel University, 24105 Kiel, Germany.
Kevin MaringerIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0977-8807
Ana Fernandez-SesmaIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3405-6702
Andres MeritsInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50090 Tartu, Estonia.
Margus VarjakInstitute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50090 Tartu, Estonia.ORCID 0000-0003-2608-5148
Alain KohlMRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK.
Esther SchnettlerBernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, 20359 Hamburg, Germany.
MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research · GBIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USUniversity of Tartu · EEChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel · DEGerman Center for Infection Research · DEThe Pirbright Institute · GBUniversität Hamburg · DE

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007032Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007033Medical Research Council MC_UU_12014/8Medical Research Council MR/R010315/1Wellcome Trust 096062
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mosquitoes are known as important vectors of many arthropod-borne (arbo)viruses causing disease in humans. These include dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV) viruses. The exogenous small interfering (si)RNA (exo-siRNA) pathway is believed to be the main antiviral defense in arthropods, including mosquitoes. During infection, double-stranded RNAs that form during viral replication and infection are cleaved by the enzyme Dicer 2 (Dcr2) into virus-specific 21 nt vsiRNAs, which are subsequently loaded into Argonaute 2 (Ago2). Ago2 then targets and subsequently cleaves complementary RNA sequences, resulting in degradation of the target viral RNA. Although various studies using silencing approaches have supported the antiviral activity of the exo-siRNA pathway in mosquitoes, and despite strong similarities between the siRNA pathway in the

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AedesAnimalsArbovirusesArbovirus InfectionsArgonaute ProteinsCell LineGene Knockout TechniquesHost-Pathogen InteractionsMosquito VectorsRNA InterferenceVirus ReplicationArgonaute ProteinsAgo2arbovirus replicationDcr2exo-siRNA pathwayknockout cell lineRNAi

Identifiers

PMID34205194
PMCPMC8227176
OpenAlexW3168034645

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