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The disulfide loop of gp41 is critical to the furin recognition site of HIV gp160.
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society - 1 Jun 2007
Sen Jayita, Jacobs Amy, Jiang Haiqing, Rong Lijun, Caffrey Michael
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The importance of the HIV gp41 conserved disulfide loop to envelope function has been examined by mutational and functional analyses. Based on a luciferase-reporter entry assay, mutants gp41-CC/AA (C598A/C604A) and gp41-Delta (deletion of residues 596-606) result in a nonfunctional envelope prote...
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