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Myristoylation of the poliovirus polyprotein is required for proteolytic processing of the capsid and for viral infectivity.
Journal of virology - 1 May 1990
Kräusslich H G, Hölscher C, Reuer Q, Harber J, Wimmer E
Abstract excerpt
The poliovirus polyprotein is cotranslationally linked to myristic acid at its amino-terminal glycine residue. We investigated the role of myristoylation in the viral replication cycle by site-directed mutagenesis of this glycine codon. Synthetic full-length RNA transcripts carrying a Gly-to-Ala mutation (G4002A) gave no infectious virus on transfection into permissive cells (HeLa). However, mutant viral RNA was...
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