Dr. Chunfu Zheng’s Lab in Wuhan Institute of Virology has made significant headway in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) research and published one article entitled “HSV-1 Tegument Protein US11 down-modulates RLR Signaling Pathway via Direct Interaction with RIG-I and MDA-5” in Journal of Virology in 2012. The interferon (IFN)-mediated antiviral response is a major defense of the host immune
Recently, significant progress on variant Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBsAg)has been made by the research team led by Dr. Chen Xinwen at WIV . The research achievement was published in Journal of Virology (2012, 86(8), 4658-4669. doi: 10.1128 / JVI.06 353-11). Hepatitis B surface antige(HBsAg), the envelope proteins of hepatitis B virus (HBV), induce protective immune response. The region comp...
Dr. Chunfu Zheng’s Lab has made significant headway in alphaherpesviruses research and published three articles in Journal of Virology in 2011. One of Professor Chunfu Zheng’s articles titled “Varicella-Zoster Virus Immediate-Early Protein ORF61 Abrogates the IRF3-Mediated Innate Immune Response through Degradation of Activated IRF3” has been selected by the editors of the Journal of Virolo...
The Ninth report of the International Committee on taxonomy of viruses (ICTV) has newly been published by Elsevier Academic press. Recent progresses on Grass carp reovirus (GCRV), made by researchers from Dr. Qin Fang, a member of The Reoviridae Study Group for ICTV, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was incorporated into the related chapter on dsRNA viruses in the repor...
