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Evolution-guided functional analyses reveal diverse antiviral specificities encoded by IFIT1 genes in mammals

IFIT (interferon-induced with tetratricopeptide repeats) proteins are critical mediators of mammalian innate antiviral immunity. Mouse IFIT1 selectively inhibits viruses that lack 2'O-methylation of their mRNA 5' caps. Surprisingly, human IFIT1 does not share this antiviral specificity. He...

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Autores principales: Daugherty, Matthew D, Schaller, Aaron M, Geballe, Adam P, Malik, Harmit S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27240734
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.14228