Monthly Archives: August 2011

Non-structural protein 1 of avian influenza A viruses differentially inhibit NF-kappaB promoter activation

Background Influenza virus infection activates NF-κB and is a general prerequisite for a productive influenza virus infection. On the other hand, non-structural protein 1 (NS1) suppresses this viral activated NF-κB, presumably to prevent expression of NF-κB mediated anti-viral response. NS1 proteins of influenza A viruses are divided into two groups, known as allele A and […]

August 23, 2011 – 3:11 pm | By Dan Frost | Posted in Other | Comments (0)

Entry in the absence of membrane fusion. Part 2

Additional evidence supporting alphavirus entry via a pore at the plasma membrane was obtained using freeze-fracture (Kononchik, Vancini and Brown, Virology, in press). In these experiments, high MOI of SVHR was adsorbed onto mosquito cells for half an hour after which the virus was cross-linked to cell surface proteins with gluteraldehyde. These samples were then […]

August 14, 2011 – 11:02 pm | By Dan Frost | Posted in Diseases | Comments (0)