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Adenoviruses: update on structure and function

School of Biology, Biomolecular Sciences Building, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK

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W. C. Russell
wcr{at}st-andrews.ac.uk

Adenoviruses have been studied intensively for over 50 years as models of virus–cell interactions and latterly as gene vectors. With the advent of more sophisticated structural analysis techniques the disposition of most of the 13 structural proteins have been defined to a reasonable level. This review seeks to describe the functional properties of these proteins and shows that they all have a part to play in deciding the outcome of an infection and act at every level of the virus's path through the host cell. They are primarily involved in the induction of the different arms of the immune system and a better understanding of their overall properties should lead to more effective ways of combating virus infections.

Published online ahead of print on 2 December 2008 as DOI 10.1099/vir.0.0083870-0.

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