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Structure of the Newcastle disease virus hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) ectodomain reveals a four-helix bundle stalk.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Sept 2011
Yuan Ping, Swanson Kurt A, Leser George P, Paterson Reay G, Lamb Robert A, Jardetzky Theodore S
Abstract excerpt
The paramyxovirus hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) protein plays multiple roles in viral entry and egress, including binding to sialic acid receptors, activating the fusion (F) protein to activate membrane fusion and viral entry, and cleaving sialic acid from carbohydrate chains. HN is an oligomeric integral membrane protein consisting of an N-terminal transmembrane domain, a stalk region, and an enzymatically...
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