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Since then, ASF has spread more widely and thus is still a great challenge for swine breeding. The genome of ASFV ranges in length from about 170 to 193 kbp depending on the isolate and contains between 150 and 167 open reading frames (ORFs). The ASFV genome encodes 150 to 200 proteins, around 50 of them structural. The roles of virus structural proteins in viral infection have been described. These proteins, such as pp220, pp62, p72, p54, p30, and CD2v, serve as the major component of virus particles and have roles in attachment, entry, and replication. All studies on ASFV proteins lay a good foundation upon which to clarify the infection mechanism and develop vaccines and diagnosis methods. In this paper, the roles of ASFV structural proteins in viral infection are reviewed.</jats:p>","journal":"Journal of Veterinary Research","year":2017,"id":19388,"datarank":6.078089469206857,"base_score":4.969813299576001,"endowment":4.969813299576001,"self_citation_contribution":0.7454719949364003,"citation_network_contribution":5.332617474270457,"self_endowment_contribution":0.7454719949364003,"citer_contribution":5.332617474270457,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":143,"citer_count":135,"citers_with_citation_signal":115,"citers_with_endowment":115,"datacite_reuse_total":10,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":131585,"name":"Yunwen Ou","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":131586,"name":"Zygmunt 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