The membrane-proximal "stem" region increases the stability of the flavivirus e protein postfusion trimer and modulates its structure

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 9933-9938

  Stiasny, Karin ^a   Kiermayr, Stefan ^a   Bernhart, Andrea ^a   Heinz, Franz X ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN E; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAVIVIRUS; MEMBRANE PROXIMAL STEM REGION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMOSTABILITY; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; FLAVIVIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS; VIRUS INTERNALIZATION;

EID: 84883306091     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01283-13     Document Type: Article

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