Protein chainmail variants in dsDNA viruses. [PDF]
, 2015 First discovered in bacteriophage HK97, biological chainmail is a highly stable system formed by concatenated protein rings. Each subunit of the ring contains the HK97-like fold, which is characterized by its submarine-like shape with a 5-stranded β ...
Chiou, Joshua, Zhou, Z Hong
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SAMHD1 … and Viral Ways around It
Viruses, 2021 The SAM and HD domain-containing protein 1 (SAMHD1) is a dNTP triphosphohydrolase that plays a crucial role for a variety of different cellular functions.
Janina Deutschmann, Thomas Gramberg
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Letter: TreeAdder: a tool to assist the optimal positioning of a new leaf into an existing phylogenetic tree [PDF]
, 2007 TreeAdder is a computer application that adds a leaf in all possible positions on a phylogenetic tree. The resulting set of trees represent a dataset appropriate for maximum likelihood calculation of the optimal tree.
Gatherer, Derek
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In-Depth Temporal Transcriptome Profiling of an Alphaherpesvirus Using Nanopore Sequencing
Viruses, 2022 In this work, a long-read sequencing (LRS) technique based on the Oxford Nanopore Technology MinION platform was used for quantifying and kinetic characterization of the poly(A) fraction of bovine alphaherpesvirus type 1 (BoHV-1) lytic transcriptome ...
Dóra Tombácz +9 more
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A systematic review of the impact of psychosocial factors on immunity: Implications for enhancing BCG response against tuberculosis. [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains an urgent global public health priority, causing 1.5 million deaths worldwide in 2018. There is evidence that psychosocial factors modulate immune function; however, how this may influence TB risk or BCG vaccine ...
Boccia, D +5 more
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Autophagy and immunity – insights from human herpesviruses
Frontiers in Immunology, 2012 The herpesviruses are a family of double-stranded DNA viruses that infect a large variety of organisms. Having co-evolved with their hosts over millennia, herpesviruses have developed a large repertoire of mechanisms to manipulate normal cellular ...
Luke eWilliams, Graham eTaylor
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Herpesviruses in Reptiles [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Since the 1970s, several species of herpesviruses have been identified and associated with significant diseases in reptiles. Earlier discoveries placed these viruses into different taxonomic groups on the basis of morphological and biological characteristics, while advancements in molecular methods have led to more recent descriptions of novel ...
Okoh, God'spower +3 more
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EHV-1 Pathogenesis: Current in vitro Models and Future Perspectives [PDF]
, 2019 Primary infection and pathogenesis of equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) require an intricate interaction of virus with the mucosal epithelium, mononuclear cells and the vascular endothelium.
Azab, Walid +3 more
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Expression of the murine cytomegalovirus glycoprotein H by recombinant vaccinia virus [PDF]
, 1994 The sequence of the gene encoding glycoprotein H (gH) of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) strain Smith was determined and compared with the sequence of the gH of MCMV strain K181. Transcriptional analysis showed that gH is encoded by a large mRNA of 5.0 kb,
Koszinowski, Ulrich H. +4 more
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Fresh Insights into Disease Etiology and the Role of Microbial Pathogens. [PDF]
, 2016 Pathogens have been implicated in the initiation and/or promotion of systemic sclerosis (scleroderma, SSc); however, no evidence was found to substantiate the direct contribution to this disease in past years.
FARINA, Antonella, Farina, G.a.2.
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