Oligomerization-dependent folding of the membrane fusion protein of semliki forest virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 9654-9663

  Andersson, Helena ^a,b   Barth, Bernd Uwe ^a,c   Ekström, Maria ^a   Garoff, Henrik ^a  

^a Department of Biosciences at Novum ^*  (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN C; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HAMSTER; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; VIRUS CAPSID;

EID: 0030782156     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.12.9654-9663.1997     Document Type: Article

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