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Homogeneous hepatitis A virus particles. Proteolytic release of the assembly signal 2A from procapsids by factor Xa.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 8 Aug 2003
Rachow Andrea, Gauss-Müller Verena, Probst Christian
Abstract excerpt
Among the picornaviridae, hepatitis A virus (HAV) is unique in that its assembly is driven by domain 2A of P1-2A, the precursor of the structural proteins (Probst, C., Jecht, M., and Gauss-Müller, V. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 4527-4531). Whereas infected individuals excrete in stool mature HAV capsids with VP1 as the major structural protein, its C-terminal extended form VP1-2A is the main component of immature...
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