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Bovine leukemia virus tax gene/Tax protein polymorphism and its relation to Enzootic Bovine Leukosis.
Virulence - 1 Dec 2020
Zyrianova Irina M, Kovalchuk Svetlana N
Abstract excerpt
Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is an oncogenic retrovirus of the Deltaretrovirus genus, which causes persistent infection in its natural hosts - cattle, zebu, and water buffalo with diverse clinical manifestations through the defeat of B-cells. The BLV proviral genome, along with structural genes (gag, pro, pol, and env), includes nonstructural ones (R3, G4, tax, rex, AS, pre-miRs (for miRNAs). We have shown in our...
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