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Expression and purification of coronavirus envelope proteins using a modified β-barrel construct.
Protein expression and purification - 1 Sept 2012
Parthasarathy Krupakar, Lu Huang, Surya Wahyu, Vararattanavech Ardcharaporn, Pervushin Konstantin, Torres Jaume
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Coronavirus envelope (E) proteins are short (~100 residues) polypeptides that contain at least one transmembrane (TM) domain and a cluster of 2-3 juxtamembrane cysteines. These proteins are involved in viral morphogenesis and tropism, and their absence leads in some cases to aberrant virions, or to viral attenuation. In common to other viroporins, coronavirus envelope proteins increase membrane permeability to...
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