Publications

Balkissoon D, Staines K, McCauley J, Wood J, et al. (2007). Low frequency of the Mx allele for viral resistance predates recent intensive selection in domestic chickens. Immunogenetics 59: 687-691. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00251-007-0235-5 PMid:17609940   Bazzigher L, Schwarz A and Staeheli P (1993). No enhanced influenza virus resistance of murine and avian cells expressing cloned duck Mx protein. Virology 195: 100-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/viro.1993.1350 PMid:8100373   Benfield CT, Lyall JW, Kochs G and Tiley LS (2008). Asparagine 631 variants of the chicken Mx protein do not inhibit influenza virus replication in primary chicken embryo fibroblasts or in vitro surrogate assays. J. Virol. 82: 7533-7539. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00185-08 PMid:18508886 PMCid:2493316   Berlin S, Qu L, Li X, Yang N, et al. (2008). Positive diversifying selection in avian Mx genes. Immunogenetics 60: 689-697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00251-008-0324-0 PMid:18726592   Bernasconi D, Schultz U and Staeheli P (1995). The interferon-induced Mx protein of chickens lacks antiviral activity. J. Interferon Cytokine Res. 15: 47-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jir.1995.15.47 PMid:7648434   Haller O, Stertz S and Kochs G (2007). The Mx GTPase family of interferon-induced antiviral proteins. Microbes Infect. 9: 1636-1643. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2007.09.010 PMid:18062906   Ko JH, Jin HK, Asano A, Takada A, et al. (2002). Polymorphisms and the differential antiviral activity of the chicken Mx gene. Genome Res. 12: 595-601. PMid:11932243 PMCid:187515   Li XY, Qu LJ, Yao JF and Yang N (2006). Skewed allele frequencies of an Mx gene mutation with potential resistance to avian influenza virus in different chicken populations. Poult. Sci. 85: 1327-1329. PMid:16830876   Salomon R, Staeheli P, Kochs G, Yen HL, et al. (2007). Mx1 gene protects mice against the highly lethal human H5N1 influenza virus. Cell Cycle 6: 2417-2421. http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cc.6.19.4779 PMid:17700072   Seyama T, Ko JH, Ohe M, Sasaoka N, et al. (2006). Population research of genetic polymorphism at amino acid position 631 in chicken Mx protein with differential antiviral activity. Biochem. Genet. 44: 437-448. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10528-006-9040-3 PMid:16955367   Sironi L, Williams JL, Moreno-Martin AM, Ramelli P, et al. (2008). Susceptibility of different chicken lines to H7N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus and the role of Mx gene polymorphism coding amino acid position 631. Virology 380: 152-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2008.07.022 PMid:18723201   Tumpey TM, Szretter KJ, Van Hoeven N, Katz JM, et al. (2007). The Mx1 gene protects mice against the pandemic 1918 and highly lethal human H5N1 influenza viruses. J. Virol. 81: 10818-10821. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01116-07 PMid:17652381 PMCid:2045488