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Arginine-glycine-aspartic acid motif is critical for human parechovirus 1 entry.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2001
Boonyakiat Y, Hughes P J, Ghazi F, Stanway G
Abstract excerpt
The human parechovirus 1 RGD motif in VP1 was studied by mutagenesis. An RGD-to-RGE change gave only revertant viruses with a restored RGD, while deletion of GD was lethal and nonrevertable. Mutations at the +1 and +2 positions had some effect on growth properties and a +1 M-to-P change was lethal. These studies indicate that the RGD motif plays a critical role in infectivity, presumably by interacting with...
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