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Complementation of M gene mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus by plasmid-derived M protein converts spherical extracellular particles into native bullet shapes.
Virology - 1 Mar 1996
Lyles D S, McKenzie M O, Kaptur P E, Grant K W, Jerome W G
Abstract excerpt
The matrix (M) protein of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) binds the nucleocapsid to the cytoplasmic surface of the host plasma membrane during virus assembly by budding. It also condenses the nucleocapsid into a tightly coiled nucleocapsid-M protein complex that appears to give the virion its bullet-like shape. As described here, temperature-sensitive (ts) M mutants produced two classes of membrane-containing...
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