Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6142216 | Virus Research | 2015 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Chemokines are chemoattractant cytokines that mediate the migration of immune cells to sites of infection which play an important role in innate and adaptive immunity. As an immune evasion strategy, large DNA viruses (herpesviruses and poxviruses) encode soluble chemokine binding proteins that bind chemokines with high affinity, even though they do not show sequence similarity to cellular chemokine receptors. This review summarizes the different secreted viral chemokine binding proteins described to date, with special emphasis on the diverse mechanisms of action they exhibit to interfere with chemokine function and their specific contribution to virus pathogenesis.
Keywords
TNFRMYXVTNFMHV-68Murine gammaherpesvirus 68ORFVSggECTVCPXVVACVGAGsGPCRSCPCRMHSVG-protein coupled receptorinterferonIFNsecrettumor necrosis factorImmune evasionCowpox virusEctromelia virusMyxoma virusHerpesvirusesherpes simplex virusvaccinia virusorf virusVariola virusPoxvirusesChemokinesGlycosaminoglycansGlycoprotein Gtumor necrosis factor receptorInterferon gamma receptor
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Authors
Haleh Heidarieh, Bruno Hernáez, Antonio AlcamÃ,