Construct design, biophysical, and biochemical characterization of the fusion core from mouse hepatitis virus (a coronavirus) spike protein

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 116-122

  Xu, Yanhui ^a   Cole, David K ^b   Lou, Zhiyong ^a   Liu, Yiwei ^a   Qin, Lan ^a   Li, Xu ^a   Bai, Zhihong ^a   Yuan, Fang ^b   Rao, Zihe ^a   Gao, George F ^b,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

6 Helix bundle; Coronavirus; Fusion core; Heptad repeat regions (HR1 and HR2); Mouse hepatitis virus; Spike (S) protein

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SPIKE GLYCOPROTEIN, CORONAVIRUS; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS FUSION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS;

CORONAVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS (STRAIN S);

EID: 5344258285     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2004.08.005     Document Type: Article

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