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Marek's Disease Virus-Encoded vIL-8 Gene Is Involved in Early Cytolytic Infection but Dispensable for Establishment of Latency
12 Apr 2004
Abstract excerpt
Marek's disease, a lymphoproliferative disease of chickens, is caused by an alphaherpesvirus, Marek's disease virus (MDV). This virus encodes a virokine, vIL-8, with general homology to cellular CXC chemokines such as interleukin-8 (IL-8) and Gro-alpha. To study the function of vIL-8 gene, we deleted both copies of vIL-8 residing in the terminal repeat long and internal repeat long region of the viral genome and...
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