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Designing a soluble near full-length HIV-1 gp41 trimer.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 4 Jan 2013
Gao Guofen, Wieczorek Lindsay, Peachman Kristina K, Polonis Victoria R, Alving Carl R, Rao Mangala, Rao Venigalla B
Abstract excerpt
The HIV-1 envelope spike is a trimer of heterodimers composed of an external glycoprotein gp120 and a transmembrane glycoprotein gp41. gp120 initiates virus entry by binding to host receptors, whereas gp41 mediates fusion between viral and host membranes. Although the basic pathway of HIV-1 entry has been extensively studied, the detailed mechanism is still poorly understood. Design of gp41 recombinants that...
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