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Conditional and reversible disruption of essential herpesvirus proteins.
Nature methods - 1 Aug 2009
Glass Mandy, Busche Andreas, Wagner Karen, Messerle Martin, Borst Eva Maria
Abstract excerpt
Elucidating the function of essential proteins of complex pathogenic viruses is impeded by a paucity of complementing systems. By fusing a destabilizing domain of the FK506-binding protein to essential cytomegalovirus proteins, we generated virus mutants in which amounts of fusion proteins and viral growth can be regulated by the synthetic ligand shield-1. This conditional approach will greatly facilitate the...
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