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Conductance and amantadine binding of a pore formed by a lysine-flanked transmembrane domain of SARS coronavirus envelope protein.
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society - 1 Sept 2007
Torres Jaume, Maheswari Uma, Parthasarathy Krupakar, Ng Lifang, Liu Ding Xiang, Gong Xiandi
Abstract excerpt
The coronavirus responsible for the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) contains a small envelope protein, E, with putative involvement in host cell apoptosis and virus morphogenesis. It has been suggested that E protein can form a membrane destabilizing transmembrane (TM) hairpin, or homooligomerize to form a regular TM alpha-helical bundle. We have shown previously that the topology of the...
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