Article
Charged assembly helix motif in murine leukemia virus capsid: an important region for virus assembly and particle size determination.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2003
Cheslock Sara Rasmussen, Poon Dexter T K, Fu William, Rhodes Terence D, Henderson Louis E, Nagashima Kunio, McGrath Connor F, Hu Wei-Shau
Abstract excerpt
We have identified a region near the C terminus of capsid (CA) of murine leukemia virus (MLV) that contains many charged residues. This motif is conserved in various lengths in most MLV-like viruses. One exception is that spleen necrosis virus (SNV) does not contain a well-defined domain of charged residues. When 33 amino acids of the MLV motif were deleted to mimic SNV CA, the resulting mutant produced...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
