Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses do not inhibit interferon synthesis in infected chickens but can override the interferon-induced antiviral state

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 7730-7741

  Penski, Nicola ^a   Härtle, Sonja ^b   Rubbenstroth, Dennis ^a   Krohmann, Carsten ^b   Ruggli, Nicolas ^c   Schusser, Benjamin ^b   Pfann, Michael ^a   Reuter, Antje ^a,e   Gohrbandt, Sandra ^d   Hundt, Jana ^d   Veits, Jutta ^d   Breithaupt, Angele ^d   Kochs, Georg ^a   Stech, Jürgen ^d   Summerfield, Artur ^c   Vahlenkamp, Thomas ^d,f   Kaspers, Bernd ^b   Staeheli, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Biology   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL POPULATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; DNA PRIMERS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H7N7 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INTERFERONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 79960395675     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00063-11     Document Type: Article

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