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The UL21 Tegument Protein of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Is Differentially Required for the Syncytial Phenotype.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 2017
Sarfo Akua, Starkey Jason, Mellinger Erica, Zhang Dan, Chadha Pooja, Carmichael Jillian, Wills John W
Abstract excerpt
The initial goal of this study was to reexamine the requirement of UL21 for herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) replication. Previous studies suggested that UL21 is dispensable for replication in cell cultures, but a recent report on HSV-2 challenges those findings. As was done for the HSV-2 study, a UL21-null virus was made and propagated on complementing cells to discourage selection of compensating mutations. This...
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