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Charged Residues in the Membrane Anchor of the Pestiviral Erns Protein Are Important for Processing and Secretion of Erns and Recovery of Infectious Viruses.
Viruses - 10 Mar 2021
Oetter Kay-Marcus, Kühn Juliane, Meyers Gregor
Abstract excerpt
The pestivirus envelope protein Erns is anchored in membranes via a long amphipathic helix. Despite the unusual membrane topology of the Erns membrane anchor, it is cleaved from the following glycoprotein E1 by cellular signal peptidase. This was proposed to be enabled by a salt bridge-stabilized hairpin structure (so-called charge zipper) formed by conserved charged residues in the membrane anchor. We show here...
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