Functional domains in the retroviral transmembrane protein.

doi:10.1128/JVI.72.7.5392-5398.1998

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Functional domains in the retroviral transmembrane protein.

Journal of virology - 1 Jul 1998

Zhao Y, Zhu L, Benedict C A, Chen D, Anderson W F, Cannon P M

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The envelope glycoproteins of the mammalian type C retroviruses consist of two subunits, a surface (SU) protein and a transmembrane (TM) protein. SU binds to the viral receptor and is thought to trigger conformational changes in the associated TM protein that ultimately lead to the fusion of vira...

Topics

3T3 Cells
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Mice
Molecular Sequence Data
Moloney murine leukemia virus
Mutation
Retroviridae Proteins
Viral Envelope Proteins
Viral Fusion Proteins

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