GxxxG motif of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus spike glycoprotein transmembrane domain is not involved in trimerization and is not important for entry

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 8352-8355

  Corver, Jeroen ^a   Broer, Rene ^a   Van Kasteren, Puck ^a   Spaan, Willy ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SARS CORONAVIRUS; TRIMERIZATION ANALYSIS; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TYPING;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SARS VIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRUS INTERNALIZATION;

SARS CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 34547100064     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00014-07     Document Type: Article

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