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Paul Digard
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 153
Citations - 15134
Paul Digard is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Influenza A virus & Virus. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 138 publications receiving 13670 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Digard include University of Warwick & Harvard University.
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Temperature sensitive influenza A virus genome replication results from low thermal stability of polymerase-cRNA complexes
Rosa M. Dalton,Anne E. Mullin,Maria João Amorim,Elizabeth Medcalf,Laurence Tiley,Paul Digard +5 more
TL;DR: The differential stability of negative and positive sense polymerase-promoter complexes explains why high temperature favours transcription over replication and has implications for the control of viral RNA synthesis at physiological temperatures.
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A novel functional domain of an alpha-like DNA polymerase. The binding site on the herpes simplex virus polymerase for the viral UL42 protein.
Paul Digard,Donald M. Coen +1 more
TL;DR: Study of the ability of deleted versions of the polymerase protein to bind UL42, as detected by coimmunoprecipitation of the two polypeptides, defined a carboxyl-terminal region of the DNA polymerase that was both necessary and sufficient for the association.
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The PB2-E627K Mutation Attenuates Viruses Containing the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic Polymerase
Brett W. Jagger,Matthew J. Memoli,Zong-Mei Sheng,Li Qi,Rachel J. Hrabal,Genevieve L. Allen,Vivien G. Dugan,Ruixue Wang,Paul Digard,John C. Kash,Jeffery K. Taubenberger +10 more
TL;DR: It is found that influenza viruses containing these mutations in the context of the pandemic virus polymerase complex are attenuated in cell culture and mice, suggesting that mutations associated with the enhanced pathogenicity of previous pandemic viruses or H5N1 viruses with pandemic potential do not enhance virulence.
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Characterisation of influenza A viruses with mutations in segment 5 packaging signals
TL;DR: A virus with alterations to NP codons 464-466, near the 5′-end of the vRNA, produced small plaques and replicated to around one-tenth of the level of wild type virus.