Putative endogenous filovirus VP35-like protein potentially functions as an IFN antagonist but not a polymerase cofactor

• Tatsunari Kondoh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Rashid Manzoor,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Naganori Nao,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Junki Maruyama,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Wakako Furuyama,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Hiroko Miyamoto,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Asako Shigeno,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Makoto Kuroda,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Keita Matsuno,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Daisuke Fujikura,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Masahiro Kajihara,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Reiko Yoshida,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Manabu Igarashi,

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

  Affiliations Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Ayato Takada

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: atakada@czc.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliations Division of Global Epidemiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, School of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2464-6642

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