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Functional reconstitution of lost activity of chemically cross-linked or mutant moloney murine leukemia virus nucleocapsid proteins by trans-complementation.
Archives of virology - 1 Dec 2001
Heldsinger A, Sharmeen L
Abstract excerpt
Intermolecular crosslinking of the retroviral gag structural proteins, capsid (CA) and nucleocapsid (NC), by oxidation of cysteine thiols interferes with virus assembly and infectivity. PD156202 is a dithiobisbenzamide with broad antiviral activity against retroviruses. Treatment of cell free Moloney murine leukemia virus (MuLV) particles with PD156202 induced crosslinking of gag structural proteins and inhibited...
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