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Changing the protease specificity for activation of a flavivirus, tick-borne encephalitis virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2008
Fischl Wolfgang, Elshuber Sigrid, Schrauf Sabrina, Mandl Christian W
Abstract excerpt
The infectivity of flavivirus particles depends on a maturation process that is triggered by the proteolytic cleavage of the precursor of the M protein (prM). This activation cleavage is naturally performed by ubiquitous cellular proteases of the furin family, which typically recognize the multibasic sequence motif R-X-R/K-R. Previously, we demonstrated that a tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) mutant with an...
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