Amino acid substitutions within the leucine zipper domain of the murine coronavirus spike protein cause defects in oligomerization and the ability to induce cell-to-cell fusion

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 8152-8159

  Luo, Zongli ^a   Matthews, Avery M ^a   Weiss, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; LEUCINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; GLYCOSYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0032827589     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.10.8152-8159.1999     Document Type: Article

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