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Peptide inhibitors of flavivirus entry derived from the E protein stem.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 2010
Schmidt Aaron G, Yang Priscilla L, Harrison Stephen C
Abstract excerpt
Peptides derived from the "stem" of dengue virus (DV) type 2 (DV2) envelope (E) protein inhibit DV2 infectivity, targeting a late-stage fusion intermediate. We show here that stem peptides from all DV serotypes cross-inhibit DV1 to DV4 but that corresponding peptides derived from related flaviviruses do not. This failure to inhibit infection is not due to poor interaction with the E protein but rather to loss of...
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