Measles virus fusion protein is palmitoylated on transmembrane- intracytoplasmic cysteine residues which participate in cell fusion

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 8198-8204

  Caballero, Monserrat ^a   Carabaña, Juan ^a   Ortego, Javier ^a,b   Fernández Muñoz, Rafael ^a   Celma, María L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALMITIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THIOESTER; VIRUS FUSION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANINE DISTEMPER MORBILLIVIRUS; CELL FUSION; CHEMICAL BOND; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LYMPHOID CELL LINE; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PALMITOYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNCYTIUM; VERO CELL;

EID: 0031714558     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.10.8198-8204.1998     Document Type: Article

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