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SUBMITTER: Pham CL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6362354 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pham Chi Ll CL Shanmugam Nirukshan N Strange Merryn M O'Carroll Ailis A Brown James Wp JW Sierecki Emma E Gambin Yann Y Steain Megan M Sunde Margaret M
EMBO reports 20181129 2
The murine cytomegalovirus protein M45 protects infected mouse cells from necroptotic death and, when heterologously expressed, can protect human cells from necroptosis induced by tumour necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) activation. Here, we show that the N-terminal 90 residues of the M45 protein, which contain a RIP homotypic interaction motif (RHIM), are sufficient to confer protection against TNFR-induced necroptosis. This N-terminal region of M45 drives rapid self-assembly into homo-oligomeric ...[more]