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Insight into the binding modes of Lassa nucleoprotein complexed with ssRNA by molecular dynamic simulations and free energy calculations.
Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics - 1 Jan 2015
Zhang Ying, Chen Hang, Han Ju-Guang
Abstract excerpt
Lassa virus (LASV), an arenavirus known to be responsible for a severe hemorrhagic fever, causes thousands of deaths annually and there is no effective vaccine for it so far. The nucleoprotein (NP) of LASV plays an essential role in the replication and transcription of the viral genome. Recent research shows that viral RNA binds in a deep crevice located within the N-terminal domain of NP and suggests a gating...
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