Identification and characterization of a novel non-structural protein of bluetongue virus.

Bluetongue virus (BTV) is the causative agent of a major disease of livestock (bluetongue). For over two decades, it has been widely accepted that the 10 segments of the dsRNA genome of BTV encode for 7 structural and 3 non-structural proteins. The non-structural proteins (NS1, NS2, NS3/NS3a) play d...

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Main Authors: Maxime Ratinier, Marco Caporale, Matthew Golder, Giulia Franzoni, Kathryn Allan, Sandro Filipe Nunes, Alessia Armezzani, Amr Bayoumy, Frazer Rixon, Andrew Shaw, Massimo Palmarini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-12-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3248566?pdf=render