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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: kathie walters
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-38112 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Jagger B W BW Wise H M HM Kash J C JC Walters K-A KA Wills N M NM Xiao Y-L YL Dunfee R L RL Schwartzman L M LM Ozinsky A A Bell G L GL Dalton R M RM Lo A A Efstathiou S S Atkins J F JF Firth A E AE Taubenberger J K JK Digard P P
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20120628 6091
Influenza A virus (IAV) infection leads to variable and imperfectly understood pathogenicity. We report that segment 3 of the virus contains a second open reading frame ("X-ORF"), accessed via ribosomal frameshifting. The frameshift product, termed PA-X, comprises the endonuclease domain of the viral PA protein with a C-terminal domain encoded by the X-ORF and functions to repress cellular gene expression. PA-X also modulates IAV virulence in a mouse infection model, acting to decrease pathogeni ...[more]