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Loss of Actin-Based Motility Impairs Ectromelia Virus Release In Vitro but Is Not Critical to Spread In Vivo.
Viruses - 5 Mar 2018
Duncan Melanie Laura, Horsington Jacquelyn, Eldi Preethi, Al Rumaih Zahrah, Karupiah Gunasegaran, Newsome Timothy P
Abstract excerpt
Ectromelia virus (ECTV) is an orthopoxvirus and the causative agent of mousepox. Like other poxviruses such as variola virus (agent of smallpox), monkeypox virus and vaccinia virus (the live vaccine for smallpox), ECTV promotes actin-nucleation at the surface of infected cells during virus release. Homologs of the viral protein A36 mediate this function through phosphorylation of one or two tyrosine residues that...
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