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Latently Expressed Human Herpesvirus 8-Encoded Interferon Regulatory Factor 2 Inhibits Double-Stranded RNA-Activated Protein Kinase
1 Mar 2001
Abstract excerpt
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8; Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus) encodes four open reading frames with homology to cellular proteins of interferon regulatory factor (IRF) family. Three of them, viral IRF-1 (vIRF-1), vIRF-2, and vIRF-3, have been cloned and found, when overexpressed, to down-regulate the transcriptional activity of interferon type I gene promoters in infected cells by interfering with the transactivating...
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