Article
Mutations in VP1 of poliovirus specifically affect both encapsidation and release of viral RNA.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 1990
Kirkegaard K
Abstract excerpt
The phenotypic defects of two type 1 Mahoney poliovirus mutants, termed VP1-101 and VP1-102, were caused by two different small deletions in the region of the RNA genome encoding the amino terminus of the capsid protein VP1. This portion of VP1 was unresolved in the three-dimensional structure of the poliovirion, buried within the virion, and likely to interact with the viral RNA. Both VP1-101 and VP1-102 showed...
Topics
- Animals
- Capsid
- Capsid Proteins
- Cell Line
- Chromosome Deletion
- Genes, Viral
- HeLa Cells
- Humans
- Kinetics
- Models, Structural
- Mutation
- Phenotype
