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A new influenza virus virulence determinant: the NS1 protein four C-terminal residues modulate pathogenicity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Mar 2008
Jackson David, Hossain Md Jaber, Hickman Danielle, Perez Daniel R, Lamb Robert A
Abstract excerpt
The virulence of influenza virus is a multigenic trait. One determinant of virulence is the multifunctional NS1 protein that functions in several ways to defeat the cellular innate immune response. Recent large-scale genome sequence analysis of avian influenza virus isolates indicated that four C-terminal residues of the NS1 protein is a PDZ ligand domain of the X-S/T-X-V type and it was speculated that it may...
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