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Amino acid substitutions within the heptad repeat domain 1 of murine coronavirus spike protein restrict viral antigen spread in the central nervous system.
Virology - 1 Aug 2003
Tsai Jean C, de Groot Linda, Pinon Josefina D, Iacono Kathryn T, Phillips Joanna J, Seo Su-hun, Lavi Ehud, Weiss Susan R
Abstract excerpt
Targeted recombination was carried out to select mouse hepatitis viruses (MHVs) in a defined genetic background, containing an MHV-JHM spike gene encoding either three heptad repeat 1 (HR1) substitutions (Q1067H, Q1094H, and L1114R) or L1114R alone. The recombinant virus, which expresses spike with the three substitutions, was nonfusogenic at neutral pH. Its replication was significantly inhibited by...
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