Ebolavirus VP35 is a multifunctional virulence factor

Virulence

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 526-531

  Leung, Daisy W ^a   Prins, Kathleen C ^b   Basler, Christopher F ^b   Amarasinghe, Gaya K ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug target; Ebola virus; Filoviruses; IFN antagonist; Immune evasion; Marburg virus; RNA binding protein; Virulence factor; VP35

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BETA INTERFERON; IMMUNE RNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; JANUS KINASE; PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID INDUCIBLE PROTEIN I; STAT PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; VIRULENCE FACTOR; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG STRUCTURE; EBOLA VIRUS; IMMUNE EVASION; NONHUMAN; RNA SYNTHESIS; VIROLOGY;

EBOLA VIRUS; FILOVIRIDAE; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS;

EID: 79251483474     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/viru.1.6.12984     Document Type: Article

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