Prime Suspect: Does Cattle-Associated Bacterium Cause Crohn's Disease?
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Prime suspect.
Background: Human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) causes adult T-cell leukemia/ lymphoma and is linked to a number of lymphocyte-mediated disorders. HTLV-1 contains both regulatory and accessory genes in four pX open reading frames. pX ORF-II encodes two proteins, p13 and p30, whose roles are still being defined in the virus life cycle and in HTLV-1 virus-host cell interactions. Proviral c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Microbe Magazine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1558-7452,1558-7460
DOI: 10.1128/microbe.3.360.1