Rift Valley fever virus 78kDa envelope protein attenuates virus replication in macrophage-derived cell lines and viral virulence in mice

• Kaori Terasaki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: katerasa@utmb.edu (KT); shmakino@utmb.edu (SM)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Human Infection and Immunity, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6997-8689

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• Birte Kalveram,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kendra N. Johnson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9824-1846

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• Terry Juelich,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jennifer K. Smith,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Lihong Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Alexander N. Freiberg,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Human Infection and Immunity, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Tropical Diseases, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-8960

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• Shinji Makino

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: katerasa@utmb.edu (KT); shmakino@utmb.edu (SM)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Human Infection and Immunity, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Tropical Diseases, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-1576

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