Lumpy skin disease virus 001/156 protein is a virulence factor that suppresses interferon production through impairing IRF3 dimerization

• Minmin Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Minmin Zhang, Yujie Shi

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

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Yujie Shi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Minmin Zhang, Yujie Shi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Xinyin Lu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Qiwei Zhang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Yubo Zhao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Shaohan Li,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Zhiyuan Wen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Jinying Ge,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Xijun Wang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Jie Li,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Jinyu Biotechnology Co., LTD, Hohhot, China

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• Zhigao Bu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: buzhigao@caas.cn (ZB); yinxin@caas.cn (XY)

  ¶‡ These authors jointly supervised this work.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

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• Xin Yin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: buzhigao@caas.cn (ZB); yinxin@caas.cn (XY)

  ¶‡ These authors jointly supervised this work.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2357-6718

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