Overexpression of the nucleocapsid protein of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus up-regulates CXCL10 James Odame Aboagye1,2, Chow Wenn Yew1, Oi-Wing Ng2, Vanessa M. Monteil3,4, Ali Mirazimi3,4, Yee-Joo Tan1,2,* 1Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System (NUHS), National University of Singapore, Singapore. 3Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden. 4Public Health Agency of Sweden, Sweden. *Address correspondence to Yee-Joo Tan,