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SUBMITTER: Phillips AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6160216 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Phillips Angela M AM Ponomarenko Anna I AI Chen Kenny K Ashenberg Orr O Miao Jiayuan J McHugh Sean M SM Butty Vincent L VL Whittaker Charles A CA Moore Christopher L CL Bloom Jesse D JD Lin Yu-Shan YS Shoulders Matthew D MD
PLoS biology 20180917 9
The threat of viral pandemics demands a comprehensive understanding of evolution at the host-pathogen interface. Here, we show that the accessibility of adaptive mutations in influenza nucleoprotein at fever-like temperatures is mediated by host chaperones. Particularly noteworthy, we observe that the Pro283 nucleoprotein variant, which (1) is conserved across human influenza strains, (2) confers resistance to the Myxovirus resistance protein A (MxA) restriction factor, and (3) critically contri ...[more]