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Mutations in modified virus Ankara protein 183 render it a non-functional counterpart of B14, an inhibitor of nuclear factor kappaB activation.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Sept 2010
McCoy Laura E, Fahy Aodhnait S, Chen Ron A-J, Smith Geoffrey L
Abstract excerpt
Vaccinia virus (VACV) encodes multiple proteins to evade host innate immunity, including B14, a virulence factor that binds to the inhibitor of kappaB kinase beta (IKKbeta) and blocks nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) activation. B14 shares 95 % amino acid identity with the 183 protein encoded by modified virus Ankara (MVA), an attenuated VACV strain being developed as a vaccine vector. To evaluate whether the...
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