Variable-loop-deleted variants of the human immunodeficiency virus type I envelope glycoprotein can be stabilized by an intermolecular disulfide bond between the gp120 and gp41 subunits

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 5091-5100

  Sanders, Rogier W ^a   Schiffner, Linnea ^b   Master, Aditi ^b   Kajumo, Francis ^b   Guo, Yong ^b   Dragic, Tatjana ^b   Moore, John P ^b,c   Binley, James M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; FURIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 140; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 41; PROTEINASE; VIRUS RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA TRANSFECTION; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENE DELETION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, CD4; BINDING SITES; DISULFIDES; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP41; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034063445     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.11.5091-5100.2000     Document Type: Article

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