MicrobiologyJournal of VirologyPeer-reviewed
A single polymorphic residue in humans underlies species-specific restriction of HSV-1 by the antiviral protein MxB
Avraham Bayer, Stephanie J. Child, Harmit Singh Malik, Adam P. Geballe
The paper identifies a single amino acid variant in MxB that determines HSV-1 restriction in humans, showing that this variant is absent in other primates and has recently become common in humans.
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