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Viruses, Volume 15, Issue 9

September 2023 - 192 articles

Cover Story: Suppression of the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) major immediate early protein (MIEP), to restrict the viral lytic transcription programme, is a pre-requisite for latency and is driven by repressive epigenetic modifications at the MIEP during latent infection. We and others have observed that LUNA, a latency-associated viral gene, enhances latency-associated expression. Here, we show that in the absence of LUNA, the expression of multiple latency-associated transcripts is reduced during latent infection. We also show that LUNA interacts with the hematopoietic transcription factor GATA-2, which is known to bind to a number of latency-associated gene promoters. As such, LUNA plays a key role in efficient latency-associated viral gene expression and the carriage of viral genomes during latent carriage. View this paper
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Articles (192)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,485 Views
16 Pages

The Identification of Viral Pathogens in a Physostegia virginiana Plant Using High-Throughput RNA Sequencing

  • Jinxi Dong,
  • Yuanling Chen,
  • Yi Xie,
  • Mengji Cao,
  • Shuai Fu and
  • Jianxiang Wu

21 September 2023

Physostegia virginiana is an important ornamental and cut-flower plant in China. Its commonly used method of clonal propagation leads to virus accumulation in this plant. However, which viruses can infect the Physostegia virginiana plant remains to b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,181 Views
20 Pages

21 September 2023

UL24 of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) has been shown to be a determinant of pathogenesis in mouse models of infection. The N-terminus of UL24 localizes to the nucleus and drives the redistribution of nucleolin and B23. In contrast, when expressed al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,972 Views
17 Pages

Substitutions in SARS-CoV-2 Mpro Selected by Protease Inhibitor Boceprevir Confer Resistance to Nirmatrelvir

  • Karen Anbro Gammeltoft,
  • Yuyong Zhou,
  • Line Abildgaard Ryberg,
  • Long V. Pham,
  • Alekxander Binderup,
  • Carlos Rene Duarte Hernandez,
  • Anna Offersgaard,
  • Ulrik Fahnøe,
  • Günther Herbert Johannes Peters and
  • Santseharay Ramirez
  • + 2 authors

21 September 2023

Nirmatrelvir, which targets the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro), is the first-in-line drug for prevention and treatment of severe COVID-19, and additional Mpro inhibitors are in development. However, the risk of resistance development threatens the f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,339 Views
21 Pages

Transcriptional Stochasticity as a Key Aspect of HIV-1 Latency

  • Alexia Damour,
  • Vera Slaninova,
  • Ovidiu Radulescu,
  • Edouard Bertrand and
  • Eugenia Basyuk

21 September 2023

This review summarizes current advances in the role of transcriptional stochasticity in HIV-1 latency, which were possible in a large part due to the development of single-cell approaches. HIV-1 transcription proceeds in bursts of RNA production, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,082 Views
9 Pages

BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness in Patients with Coeliac Disease Autoimmunity: Real-World Data from Mass Vaccination Campaign

  • Amir Ben-Tov,
  • Benjamin Lebwohl,
  • Tamar Banon,
  • Gabriel Chodick,
  • Revital Kariv,
  • Amit Assa,
  • Sivan Gazit and
  • Tal Patalon

21 September 2023

Background: Data on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among patients with coeliac disease are currently lacking because patients with immune conditions were excluded from clinical trials. We used our coeliac disease autoimmunity (CDA) cohort to explore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,217 Views
10 Pages

21 September 2023

Most human papillomavirus (HPV) surveillance studies target 30–50 of the more than 200 known types. We applied our recently described enriched whole-genome sequencing (eWGS) assay to demonstrate the impact of detecting all known and novel HPV t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,260 Views
14 Pages

Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Recombinant Classical Pseudorabies Virus in the Context of the Variant Strains Pandemic in China

  • Zhengmin Lian,
  • Panrao Liu,
  • Zhenbang Zhu,
  • Zhe Sun,
  • Xiuling Yu,
  • Junhua Deng,
  • Ruichao Li,
  • Xiangdong Li and
  • Kegong Tian

20 September 2023

Pseudorabies virus (PRV) variants were discovered in immunized pigs in Northern China and have become the dominant strains since 2011, which caused huge economic losses. In this study, a classical PRV strain was successfully isolated in a PRV gE posi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,377 Views
16 Pages

Detection of Alpha- and Betacoronaviruses in Small Mammals in Western Yunnan Province, China

  • Fen-Hui Xu,
  • Pei-Yu Han,
  • Jia-Wei Tian,
  • Li-Dong Zong,
  • Hong-Min Yin,
  • Jun-Ying Zhao,
  • Ze Yang,
  • Wei Kong,
  • Xing-Yi Ge and
  • Yun-Zhi Zhang

20 September 2023

The genetic diversity of coronaviruses (CoVs) is high, and their infection in animals has not yet been fully revealed. By RT-PCR detection of the partial RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) gene of CoVs, we screened a total of 502 small mammals in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,481 Views
16 Pages

Clematis vitalba Is a Natural Host of the Novel Ilarvirus, Prunus Virus I

  • Pal Salamon,
  • Zsuzsanna Nagyne-Galbacs,
  • Emese Demian,
  • Adam Achs,
  • Peter Alaxin,
  • Lukáš Predajňa,
  • Evans Duah Agyemang,
  • Francesco Desiderio,
  • Andras Peter Takacs and
  • Wulf Menzel
  • + 3 authors

20 September 2023

Clematis vitalba L. is a climbing shrub and a pioneer plant in abandoned orchards or vineyards that are widespread in temperate climate zones. In past years, several viruses infecting the Clematis species have been identified, including different ila...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,981 Views
12 Pages

20 September 2023

The non-structural protein (NSs) and nucleoprotein (NP) of the severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) encoded by the S segment are crucial for viral pathogenesis. They reside in viroplasm-like structures (VLS), but their interactio...

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