The membrane proteins of flaviviruses form ion-permeable pores in the target membrane after fusion: Identification of the pores and analysis of their possible role in virus infection

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1711-1721

  Koschinski, Andreas ^a   Wengler, Gerd ^b   Wengler, Gisela ^b   Repp, Holger ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CORE PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTON; TRITIUM; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSOME; FLAVIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HYPOTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; ION PERMEABILITY; LIPID COMPOSITION; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RNA TRANSLATION; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINE; CRICETINAE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ION TRANSPORT; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE FUSION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; TRITIUM; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ALPHAVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 0038496834     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19062-0     Document Type: Article

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