Structure-Function Studies Link Class II Viral Fusogens with the Ancestral Gamete Fusion Protein HAP2

Current Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 651-660

  Pinello, Jennifer Fricke ^a   Lai, Alex L ^a   Millet, Jean K ^a   Cassidy Hanley, Donna ^a   Freed, Jack H ^a   Clark, Theodore G ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

conjugation; evolution of sex; GCS1; HAP2; membrane fusion; structure homology modeling; Tetrahymena; virus fusogen

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; FERTILIZATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

FERTILIZATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 85013645762     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.049     Document Type: Article

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