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The Paramyxoviruses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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The Paramyxoviruses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
Series: The Viruses
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What justifies the size of this compendium of reviews on the
paramyxoviruses? As intracellular parasites that reproduce with
almost complete indifference to nuclear activities, paramyxoviruses
have not been providing insights about genes that regulate cellular
activities and development, topics that account for much of the
excitement in modem biology. For contributions of virus research to
those topics, we must look to the retroviruses, which have the
propensity to steal developmentally important genes and subvert
them to malignant pur poses, and to the nuclear DNA viruses, whose
gene expression depends heavily upon cellular transcription
machinery, making them exceptionally useful tools for identifying
and characterizing components of that machinery. From this
perspective, it may appear that purely lytic viruses like the
paramyxoviruses are sitting on the sidelines of contemporary
biology. But there is plenty of action on the sidelines.
Paramyxoviruses remain unconquered, devastating agents of disease.
Human deaths attributable to paramyxoviruses worldwide, especially
in children, are numbered in the mil lions annually. There are many
pathogenic paramyxoviruses and too few effec tive vaccines, and
those vaccines (against measles and mumps) are affordable only by
relatively affluent nations. Moreover, the paramyxoviruses are
intrin sically interesting organisms, presenting the challenge of
understanding the self-replication of RNA and many other challenges
peculiar to the structures and functions of their proteins, not
only as individual entities, but also as they act in concert during
virus reproduction and interact with vital functions of the cells
they infect and often (but not always) destroy."
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