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SUBMITTER: Eskildsen S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC162331 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eskildsen Signe S Justesen Just J Schierup Mikkel Heide MH Hartmann Rune R
Nucleic acids research 20030601 12
The interferon-induced 2'-5'-oligoadenylate synthetases (OAS) are important for the antiviral activity of interferons. The human and murine OAS gene families each contain four genes: OAS1, OAS2, OAS3 and OASL, all having one or more conserved OAS units composed of five translated exons. The OASL gene has both an OAS unit and a C-terminus of two ubiquitin-like repeats. In this study, we demonstrate that murine Oasl1 protein is inactive while murine Oasl2 is active as an OAS. Further more, murine ...[more]