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Strong interferon-inducing capacity of a highly virulent variant of influenza A virus strain PR8 with deletions in the NS1 gene.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Dec 2009
Kochs Georg, Martínez-Sobrido Luis, Lienenklaus Stefan, Weiss Siegfried, García-Sastre Adolfo, Staeheli Peter
Abstract excerpt
Influenza viruses lacking the interferon (IFN)-antagonistic non-structural NS1 protein are strongly attenuated. Here, we show that mutants of a highly virulent variant of A/PR/8/34 (H1N1) carrying either a complete deletion or C-terminal truncations of NS1 were far more potent inducers of IFN in infected mice than NS1 mutants derived from standard A/PR/8/34. Efficient induction of IFN correlated with successful...
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