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The Role of the Tyrosine-Based Sorting Signals of the ORF3a Protein of SARS-CoV-2 in Intracellular Trafficking and Pathogenesis
3 Apr 2025
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The open reading frame 3a (ORF3a) is a protein important to the pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2. The cytoplasmic domain of ORF3a has three canonical tyrosine-based sorting signals (160YNSV163, 211YYQL213, and 233YNKI236), and a previous study has indicated that mutation of the 160YNSV163 motif abrogated plasma membrane expression and inhibited ORF3a-induced apoptosis. Here, we have systematically removed all three...
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