FluB NP Antibody (7F9)

The influenza B virus is the leading cause of annual influenza epidemics and occasional influenza pandemics. NP of influenza B virus plays a central role in viral replication. As a structural protein with no intrinsic enzymatic activity , it is the most abundant viral protein in infected cells . Monomeric NP is a 56 kDa protein with a patch of basic residues capable of binding to a single-strand RNA. NP also contains nuclear localization signals (NLS) and nuclear export signals (NES). The Influenza B virus nucleoprotein (NP) is the major protein component of the genomic viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP ) complexes , which are the replication - and transcription -competent units of Influenza viruses. Early during infection, NP mediates import of vRNPs into the host cell nucleus where viral replication and transcription take place; also newly synthesized NP molecules are targeted into the nucleus, enabling coreplicational assembly of progeny vRNPs.