Crystal structures of Nipah and Hendra virus fusion core proteins

FEBS Journal

Volumn 273, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4538-4547

  Lou, Zhiyong ^a,b   Xu, Yanhui ^a,b   Xiang, Kehui ^a   Su, Nan ^a   Qin, Lan ^a   Li, Xu ^a   Gao, George F ^c   Bartlam, Mark ^a,b   Rao, Zihe ^a,b,d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Fusion core; Hendra virus; Heptad repeat; Nipah virus

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; ENVELOPE PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HENDRA VIRUS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRUS ENVELOPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; HENDRA VIRUS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS;

HENDRA VIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; PTEROPODIDAE;

EID: 33748747845     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05459.x     Document Type: Article

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