Article
A mutant poliovirus containing a novel proteolytic cleavage site in VP3 is altered in viral maturation.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 1990
Blair W S, Hwang S S, Ypma-Wong M F, Semler B L
Abstract excerpt
A six-amino-acid insertion containing a Q-G amino acid pair was introduced into the carboxy terminus of the capsid protein VP3 (between residues 236 and 237). Transfection of monkey cells with full-length poliovirus cDNA containing the insertion described above yields a mutant virus (Sel-1C-02) in which cleavage occurs almost entirely at the inserted Q-G amino acid pair instead of at the wild-type VP3-VP1...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Capsid
- Capsid Proteins
- Centrifugation, Density Gradient
- Humans
- Methionine
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Peptide Mapping
- Poliovirus
