Purification and Crystallization Reveal Two Types of Interactions of the Fusion Protein Homotrimer of Semliki Forest Virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 3514-3523

  Gibbons, Don L ^a   Reilly, Brigid ^a   Ahn, Anna ^a   Vaney, Marie Christine ^b   Vigouroux, Armelle ^b   Rey, Felix A ^b   Kielian, Margaret ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; HEMAGGLUTININ; HYBRID PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; LIPOSOME; VIRUS FUSION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLAVIVIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; VIRUS ENVELOPE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; HAMSTER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLUBILITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CRICETINAE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGHT; LIPOSOMES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; SOLUBILITY; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 1842562375     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.7.3514-3523.2004     Document Type: Article

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