SAN DIEGO, June 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists using electron microscopy and 3-D computer reconstruction say they have produced the most detailed image yet of a viral protein envelope.
... cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery ... Madison and Harvard Medical School report that a viral protein, called UL97, masquerades as a normal ...
... a so-called accessory protein called Vpx (Viral protein x). Prior studies ... system -- called the ubiquitin-dependent proteosomal protein degradation mechanism -- but also identified precisely the way ...
... Inc., provides novel insights into the potential functions of over 120 previously uncharacterized viral proteins. Most people are infected with the three human herpesviruses that were the subject of ...
... cells that don't show MHC proteins.
Sometime along its treacherous evolutionary path, ... UL18 virtually undetectable. "It's a good example of a viral protein that evolved from its host ancestor to block ...
... in the October 3rd edition of the journal PLoS Pathogens and describes a novel mechanism by which viral proteins contribute to carcinogenesis.
EBV is a common herpes virus whose latent infection is ...
... transported out of the cell nucleus and into the cytoplasm where the mRNAs can be "translated" into viral proteins.
"Although there has been a great deal of effort directed at understanding HIV-1 ...
Research in PLoS Pathogens appears to solve a long standing medical mystery by identifying a viral protein, VP16, as the molecular key that prompts herpes simplex virus (HSV) to ...
... to solve a long standing medical mystery by identifying a viral protein, VP16, as the molecular key that prompts herpes simplex virus (HSV) to exit latency and cause recurrent ...
... HIV specifically counteracts the mechanisms of human cells that protect these against viral infections – a special viral protein marks protective cellular proteins for their rapid destruction and thus ...
... (LCMV), T cells became more or less exhausted depending on how much properly framed viral protein was available.
Insights from the research could guide efforts to revive the immune system in people ...
... "two-pronged" attack on cellular protein-synthesis machinery.
Their results show that copies of this viral protein, known as nsp1, directly interferes with the tiny cellular machines called ribosomes ...
... cell RNA molecules to direct the protein production machinery towards the synthesis of viral proteins. Researchers of the groups of Stephen Cusack and Darren Hart at EMBL Grenoble have identified the ...
... participants’ viral loads and also analyzed the ability of their CTLs to respond to the specific viral protein segments against which the cells were targeted. In participants who received antiviral ...
... their field of view from inside the cell), the group tagged a major viral protein, called the Gag protein, with molecules that fluoresce, but whose color would change as they packed closer together. ...
