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Conservation and variation of the parapoxvirus GM-CSF-inhibitory factor (GIF) proteins.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Apr 2009
Deane D, Ueda N, Wise L M, Wood A R, Percival A, Jepson C, Inglis N F, Fleming S B, Mercer A A, McInnes C J
Abstract excerpt
The GIF protein of orf virus (ORFV) binds and inhibits the ovine cytokines granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin-2 (IL-2). An equivalent protein has so far not been found in any of the other poxvirus genera and we therefore investigated whether it was conserved...
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