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Constrained evolvability of interferon suppression in an RNA virus.
Scientific reports - 21 Apr 2016
Garijo Raquel, Cuevas José M, Briz Álvaro, Sanjuán Rafael
Abstract excerpt
Innate immunity responses controlled by interferon (IFN) are believed to constitute a major selective pressure shaping viral evolution. Viruses encode a variety of IFN suppressors, but these are often multifunctional proteins that also play essential roles in other steps of the viral infection cycle, possibly limiting their evolvability. Here, we experimentally evolved a vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) mutant...
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