Article
Increasing Type 1 Poliovirus Capsid Stability by Thermal Selection.
Journal of virology - 15 Feb 2017
Adeyemi Oluwapelumi O, Nicol Clare, Stonehouse Nicola J, Rowlands David J
Abstract excerpt
Poliomyelitis is a highly infectious disease caused by poliovirus (PV). It can result in paralysis and may be fatal. Integrated global immunization programs using live-attenuated oral (OPV) and/or inactivated (IPV) PV vaccines have systematically reduced its spread and paved the way for eradication. Immunization will continue posteradication to ensure against reintroduction of the disease, but there are biosafety...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral
- Biological Evolution
- Capsid
- Capsid Proteins
- Cell Line
- Genome, Viral
- Humans
- Mice
- Models, Molecular
- Mutation
- Poliovirus
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Stability
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Temperature
- Thermodynamics
