Myxoma virus lacking the host range determinant M062 stimulates cGAS-dependent type 1 interferon response and unique transcriptomic changes in human monocytes/macrophages

• Steven J. Conrad,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Tahseen Raza,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Erich A. Peterson,

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

  Affiliation Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Jason Liem,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Richard Connor,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Bernice Nounamo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Martin Cannon,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Jia Liu

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

  * E-mail: jliu4@uams.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Center of Pathogenesis and Host Inflammatory Responses, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8424-7972

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