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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus nsp1 suppresses host gene expression, including that of type I interferon, in infected cells.
Journal of virology - 1 May 2008
Narayanan Krishna, Huang Cheng, Lokugamage Kumari, Kamitani Wataru, Ikegami Tetsuro, Tseng Chien-Te K, Makino Shinji
Abstract excerpt
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) nsp1 protein has unique biological functions that have not been described in the viral proteins of any RNA viruses; expressed SARS-CoV nsp1 protein has been found to suppress host gene expression by promoting host mRNA degradation and inhibiting translation. We generated an nsp1 mutant (nsp1-mt) that neither promoted host mRNA degradation nor suppressed...
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