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Structural Mechanism Of Poxvirus Sabotage Of T-Cell Costimulation, Jabari Issa Elliott
Structural Mechanism Of Poxvirus Sabotage Of T-Cell Costimulation, Jabari Issa Elliott
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Poxviruses are characterized by large double stranded DNA genomes that encode numerous proteins tailored for host immune response evasion. Our lab has been investigating a sequence-diverse family of secreted poxvirus proteins that appear to share a conserved beta-sandwich fold, but differ in their immunomodulatory functions. We have termed members of this superfamily Poxvirus Immune Evasion (PIE) proteins, and there appears to be at least 20 distinct subfamilies. As it turns out, cowpox virus (CPXV) encodes 10 PIE proteins, one of which, M2, can inhibit murine T cell activation through specific interactions with co-stimulatory ligands B7. 1 (CD80) and B7. 2 …