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R-Peptide cleavage potentiates fusion-controlling isomerization of the intersubunit disulfide in Moloney murine leukemia virus Env.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2008
Löving Robin, Li Kejun, Wallin Michael, Sjöberg Mathilda, Garoff Henrik
Abstract excerpt
Fusion of the membrane of the Moloney murine leukemia virus (Mo-MLV) Env protein is facilitated by cleavage of the R peptide from the cytoplasmic tail of its TM subunit, but the mechanism for this effect has remained obscure. The fusion is also controlled by the isomerization of the intersubunit disulfide of the Env SU-TM complex. In the present study, we used several R-peptide-cleavage-inhibited virus mutants to...
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