Article
Effects of retroviral envelope-protein cleavage upon trafficking, incorporation, and membrane fusion.
Virology - 15 Sept 2010
Apte Swapna, Sanders David Avram
Abstract excerpt
Retroviral envelope glycoproteins undergo proteolytic processing by cellular subtilisin-like proprotein convertases at a polybasic amino-acid site in order to produce the two functional subunits, SU and TM. Most previous studies have indicated that envelope-protein cleavage is required for rendering the protein competent for promoting membrane fusion and for virus infectivity. We have investigated the role of...
Topics
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Animals
- Humans
- Mice
- Moloney murine leukemia virus
- Mutation
- NIH 3T3 Cells
- Protein Transport
- Viral Envelope Proteins
- Virus Attachment
- Virus Internalization
