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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Epperson ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3693748 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Immunological reviews 20121101 1
During the course of evolution, viruses have captured or created a diverse array of open reading frames, which encode for proteins that serve to evade and sabotage the host innate and adaptive immune responses that would otherwise lead to their elimination. These viral genomes are some of the best textbooks of immunology ever written. The established arsenal of immunomodulatory proteins encoded by viruses is large and growing, and includes specificities for virtually all known inflammatory pathw ...[more]