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VIRUS AND INTERFERON: A FIGHT FOR S
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Abstract The Interferon (IFN) famil
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3. Permission for electronic public
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Abbreviations ADAR1 Adenosine deami
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PI3K Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase.
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1.2.2 Classification of paramyxovir
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2.5.1 RNA extraction……………
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1.1 The Interferon system The inter
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structural homologies: they both co
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1.1.2 Mechanisms of IFN signalling
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promoters, whilst others have both
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actively regulates diverse cellular
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2007)]. Mx1 gene expression is norm
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(Hsiang, Zhao, and Krug, 2009; Lai
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1.1.4 Virus encoded IFN antagonists
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1.1.5 Virus shut-off of host protei
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sector. The aetiological agent is N
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1.2.3 Virion structure The virions
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of P and V proteins are unique. 23
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species. The expression of P/V/C pr
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al., 1992; Riedl et al., 2002). M p
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forming the postfusion hairpin conf
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antigenically distinct HA subtypes
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asic amino acids sequence R-X-R/K-R
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egins with PB1 binding to the 5’
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stage of replication, full-length p
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into infectious virion. Finally, co
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with a number of host proteins invo
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infection, NS1 is found not only in
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1.3.4.3 NS1 and host immune respons
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The precise mechanism for how NS1 i
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CPSF30 and PABPII, some IFN-β pre-
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2008; Shin et al., 2007). Recently,
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2.1 Mammalian cells and tissue cult
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supplemented with Roferon recombina
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10. rUd-103/106B: The NS1 protein c
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Confluent monolayers of cells were
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2.3 DNA subcloning 2.3.1 cDNA synth
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appropriate time and temperature fo
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2.4.3 Immunofluorescence For immuno
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2.4.4 Preparation of radio-labelled
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emove unincorporated DIG nucleotide
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2.6 Miscellaneous assays 2.6.1 Lent
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Antibodies Antibodies were used in
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2.8 Primers PRIMERS DESCRIPTION SEQ
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2.9 Plasmids PLASMIDS pMD-VSVG pCMV
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A549 cells is that, IFN released fr
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3.1.3 Study of the mechanism of hos
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3.1.4 PIV5 can dismantle the IFN-in
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the majority of cells remained nega
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3.1.6 Influenza virus and the IFN-i
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these events occur only at the begi
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were detecting only the incoming vR
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naïve A549 cells and MxA-knockdown
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3.2.6 Effects of introducing MxA ba
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expression. However, over-expressio
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- Page 129 and 130: Bonjardim, C. A. (2005). Interferon
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- Page 157 and 158: A.1 Plasmid map of the pLKO.1 with
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