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Japanese encephalitis virus NS1' protein depends on pseudoknot secondary structure and is cleaved by caspase during virus infection and cell apoptosis.
Microbes and infection - 1 Sept 2012
Sun Jin, Yu Yongxin, Deubel Vincent
Abstract excerpt
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a flavivirus with a complex life cycle involving mosquito vectors that mainly target birds and pigs, and causes severe encephalitis in children in Asia. Neurotropic flaviviruses of the JEV serogroup have a particular characteristic of expressing a unique nonstructural NS1' protein, which is a prolongation of NS1 at the C terminus by 52 amino acids derived from a...
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