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Mutant plant viruses with cell binding motifs provide differential adhesion strengths and morphologies.
Biomacromolecules - 13 Feb 2012
Lee L Andrew, Nguyen Quyen L, Wu Laying, Horvath Gary, Nelson Richard S, Wang Qian
Abstract excerpt
The ability of Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) to tolerate various amino acid insertions near its carboxy terminus is well-known. Typically these inserts are based on antigenic sequences for vaccine development with plant viruses as carriers. However, we determined that the structural symmetries and the size range of the viruses could also be modeled to mimic the extracellular matrix proteins by inserting...
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